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Ruth Slaughter 1909 - 1980

Ruth Slaughter of Waxahachie, Ellis County, Texas was born on August 26, 1909, and died at age 70 years old in April 1980.
Ruth Slaughter
Waxahachie, Ellis County, Texas 75165
August 26, 1909
April 1980
Female
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Ruth Slaughter's History: 1909 - 1980

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    1909

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    August 26, 1909
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    1980

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    April 1980
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    Ruth Slaughter lived 1 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 70.
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In 1909, in the year that Ruth Slaughter was born, the New York Times published the first movie review. It was a report on D.W. Griffith's movie "Pippa Passes" also called "The Song of Conscience", a silent film. The review said that this work was moving away from "lurid material that attracted the wrath of censors and concerned citizens and toward more respectable ends. The movie was the story of a young female factory worker, on her day off, wandering and singing - thus changing the hearts of those around her towards good.
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In 1943, at the age of 34 years old, Ruth was alive when on June 20th through June 22nd, the Detroit Race Riot erupted at Belle Isle Park. The rioting spread throughout the city (made worse by false rumors of attacks on blacks and whites) and resulted in the deployment of 6,000 Federal troops. 34 people were killed, (25 of them black) - mostly by white police or National Guardsmen, 433 were wounded (75 percent of them black) and an estimated $2 million of property was destroyed. The same summer, there were riots in Beaumont, Texas and Harlem, New York.
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