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Ruth Zirbes 1890 - 1973

Ruth Zirbes of Orchard Park, Erie County, NY was born on July 7, 1890, and died at age 82 years old in January 1973.
Ruth Zirbes
Orchard Park, Erie County, NY 14127
July 7, 1890
January 1973
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    1890

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    July 7, 1890
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  • 01/dd
    1973

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    January 1973
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    Ruth Zirbes lived 10 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 82.
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In 1890, in the year that Ruth Zirbes was born, on December 29th, the Wounded Knee Massacre occurred in South Dakota on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation . The U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment said that they rode into the Lakota camp "trying to disarm" the inhabitants. One person, Black Coyote - who was deaf - held onto his rifle, saying that he paid a lot of money for it. Shots rang out and by the end at least 153 Lakota Sioux - some estimates say 300 - and 25 troops had died. The site of the massacre is a National Historic Landmark.
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In 1905, Ruth was merely 15 years old when 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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