Readus Lavon Craig
1937–2000 (Age 62)
Limestone, Alabama, United States
The Life of Readus Lavon
When Readus Lavon Craig was born on 25 September 1937, in Limestone, Alabama, United States, his father, Pate McKinley Craig, was 37 and his mother, Maude Belle Emerson, was 34. He died on 19 August 2000, in Gurley, Madison, Alabama, United States, at the age of 62.
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Family Time Line
Pate McKinley Craig
1900–1981
Maude Belle Emerson
1902–1979
Denton Monroe Craig
1918–1962
Clinton A. Craig
1922–1994
Ervin Iris Craig
1926–1978
Gilbert Woodard Craig
1929–1975
Readus Lavon Craig
1937–2000
Parents & Siblings
1900–1981Male
1902–1979Female
siblings
(5)
1918–1962Male
1922–1994Male
1926–1978Male
1929–1975Male
1937–2000Male
World Events (8)
1941
Age 4
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
1941 · The Tuskegee Airmen
Age 4
The first African-American military aviators in the U.S. Army Air Corps were known as the Tuskegee Airmen, after the Tuskegee Army Air Field where they trained. The group flew over 15,000 individual sorties during World War II which earned them over 150 Distinguished Flying Crosses.
1955 · The Civil Rights Movement Begins
Age 18
The civil rights movement was a movement to enforce constitutional and legal rights for African Americans that the other Americans enjoyed. By using nonviolent campaigns, those involved secured new recognition in laws and federal protection of all Americans. Moderators worked with Congress to pass of several pieces of legislation that overturned discriminatory practices.
Name Meaning
Scottish: topographic name for someone who lived near a steep or precipitous rock, from Gaelic creag, a word that has been borrowed in Middle English as crag(g).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Sources (3)
Readus L Craig in household of Pate Craig, "United States Census, 1940"
Readus Lavon Craig, "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950"- Readus Craig, "United States Social Security Death Index"
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