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Ruby Bethay 1888 - 1976

Ruby Bethay of De Kalb, Kemper County, Mississippi was born on January 27, 1888, and died at age 88 years old in February 1976.
Ruby Bethay
De Kalb, Kemper County, Mississippi 39328
January 27, 1888
February 1976
Female
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    1888

    Birthday

    January 27, 1888
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  • 02/dd
    1976

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    February 1976
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    Ruby Bethay lived 13 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 88.
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In 1888, in the year that Ruby Bethay was born, on July 25th, a court stenographer from Salt Lake City - Frank Edward McGurrin - decisively beat the competition in a typing contest in Ohio. He was supposedly the only person who used touch typing and is believed to have invented the method. Touch typing is ubiquitous now - but Frank's win is what convinced everyone that the method was good!
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In 1917, by the time she was 29 years old, on July 28, between ten and fifteen thousand blacks silently walked down New York City's Fifth Avenue to protest racial discrimination and violence. Lynchings in Waco Texas and hundreds of African-Americans killed in East St. Louis Illinois had sparked the protest. Picket signs said "Mother, do lynchers go to heaven?" "Mr. President, why not make America safe for democracy?" "Thou shalt not kill." "Pray for the Lady Macbeth's of East St. Louis" and "Give us a chance to live."
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