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Ruth Parks 1906 - 2003

Ruth Parks was born on January 30, 1906, and died at age 96 years old on January 2, 2003. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Ruth Parks.
Ruth Parks
January 30, 1906
January 2, 2003
Female
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    1906

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    January 30, 1906
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  • 01/2
    2003

    Death

    January 2, 2003
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    Ruth Parks lived 25 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 96.
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In 1906, in the year that Ruth Parks was born, President Theodore Roosevelt received the Nobel Prize for Peace. The award was considered controversial at the time because many thought that he was an imperialist. But he had brokered peace between Russia and Japan a year previous and had allowed a dispute between Mexico and the U.S. to go to arbitration, resolving the issue peacefully rather than resorting to military conflict. For these two reasons, the Nobel Prize committee chose him for the Peace Prize.
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In 1912, Ruth was merely 6 years old when the Girl Scouts of the USA was started by Juliette Gordon Low with the help of Sir Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of Boy Scouts in Great Britain. She said after a meeting with Baden-Powell, "I've got something for the girls of Savannah, and all of America, and all the world, and we're going to start it tonight!" And she did.
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