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Ben Lester 1898 - 1973

Ben Lester of Wyoming, Stark County, Illinois was born on December 17, 1898, and died at age 75 years old in December 1973.

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Wyoming, Stark County, Illinois 61491
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In 1898, in the year that Ben Lester was born, magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company controlled 84% of the oil and pipelines in the United States. Rockefeller grew Standard Oil through the merger of several other small oil companies throughout the U.S., creating a monopoly.
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In 1919, he was 21 years old when in the summer and early autumn, race riots erupted in 26 U.S. cities, resulting in hundreds of deaths and even more people being badly hurt. In most cases, African-Americans were the victims. It was called the "Red Summer". Men who were returning from World War I needed jobs and there was competition for those jobs among the races. Tension was heightened by the use by many companies of blacks as strikebreakers.
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