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Rita Gladys Goodes 1905 - 1986

Rita Gladys (Goodes) Layley of Sandford, Glenelg Shire County, VIC Australia was born in 1905 in Sandford to Elizabeth Ann (King) Goodes and James Richard Goodes. She had siblings John Thomas Goodes, Ada May Goodes, Ellen Jane Goodes Husson, Thelma Elizabeth Goodes, Alma Edith Goodes, Esther Rebecca Goodes, Doris Lucy Goodes, Stanley David Goodes, and Albert James Goodes. She married Alexander Layley in 1925, and had children Gwenda Margaret Layley and Albert Alexander Layley. Rita Layley died at age 80 years old on June 12, 1986.
Rita Gladys (Goodes) Layley
Sandford, Glenelg Shire County, VIC 3312, Australia
1905
Sandford, Glenelg Shire County, VIC, 3312, Australia
June 12, 1986
Australia
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  • 1905

    Birthday

    1905
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    Sandford, Glenelg Shire County, VIC 3312, Australia
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  • Nationality & Locations

    Hami, Australia Australia
  • 06/12
    1986

    Death

    June 12, 1986
    Death date
    Unknown
    Cause of death
    Australia
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    Rita Gladys Goodes lived 8 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 81.
    The average age of a Goodes family member is 73.
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In 1905, in the year that Rita Gladys Goodes 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 1933, Rita was 28 years old when Frances Perkins became the first woman to hold a cabinet-level position, appointed by President Roosevelt to serve as Secretary of Labor. She told him that her priorities would be a 40-hour work week, a minimum wage, unemployment compensation, worker’s compensation, abolition of child labor, direct federal aid to the states for unemployment relief, Social Security, a revitalized federal employment service, and universal health insurance. President Roosevelt approved of all of them and most them were implemented during his terms as President. She served until his death in 1945.
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