She saw the Titanic sink and the end of World War I. Now, the oldest American just turned 115
She saw the Titanic sink and the end of World War I. Now, the oldest American just turned 115
Elizabeth Francis says the key to living a long life is to ‘speak your mind and don’t hold your tongue’
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Not going to lie. 115 years as a black woman in the deep south sounds like Hell
On the other hand, think of how many racist pieces of shit that treated her badly in her life that she outlived.
Yeah. A bigger deal than the titanic is that she most likely met people who fought for the south in the Civil War. It ended in 1865, only 44 years before she was born. An 18 year old soldier in the civil war would have been about 62 when she was born. They would have been old men, but she probably ran into a few of them in her life.
Aside from that, the Tulsa Race Massacre would have happened when she was a pre-teen. Her teenage years would have been filled with countless stories of lynchings. Then she would have had to deal with the great depression in her 20s, then WWII in her 30s.
You typoed the year the civil war ended by a hundred years.
Oops, thanks!