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Reuben Arfa 1905 - 1984

Reuben Arfa of Rego Park, Queens County, NY was born on November 25, 1905, and died at age 78 years old on June 22, 1984 in Kings County.
Reuben Arfa
Rego Park, Queens County, NY 11374
November 25, 1905
June 22, 1984
Kings County, New York, United States
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  • 11/25
    1905

    Birthday

    November 25, 1905
    Birthdate
    Unknown
    Birthplace
  • Ethnicity & Family History

    Jewish. born in Poland
  • Religious Beliefs

    Orthodox Jew
  • Professional Career

    Bookkeeper
  • Personal Life & Family

    He spearheaded a letter-writing campaign in the 1960s and early 1970s to let the Soviet Jews out of the USSR
  • 06/22
    1984

    Death

    June 22, 1984
    Death date
    Unknown
    Cause of death
    Kings County, New York United States
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In 1905, in the year that Reuben Arfa was born, the Niagara Falls conference was held in Fort Erie, Ontario. Led by W.E.B. Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter, a group of African-American men met in opposition to racial segregation and disenfranchisement. Booker T. Washington had been calling for policies of accommodation and conciliation and these two men, along with the others who attended the conference, felt that this was accomplishing nothing. The group was the precursor to the NAACP.
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In 1910, he was merely 5 years old when the Mexican revolution began. Dictator Porfirio Díaz had ruled for 35 years and was nationally unpopular. When elections were held in 1910 and a rigged election kept Diaz in office. The uprising began - and lasted for another 10 years.
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