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Betty W Downard 1919 - 2009

Betty W Downard of Des Moines, Polk County, IA was born on August 19, 1919, and died at age 89 years old on January 11, 2009.

Betty W Downard

Des Moines, Polk County, IA 50327

August 19, 1919

January 11, 2009

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August 19, 1919

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2009

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January 11, 2009

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In 1919, in the year that Betty W Downard was born, 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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In 1947, by the time she was 28 years old, in June, the Marshall Plan was proposed to help European nations recover economically from World War II. It passed the conservative Republican Congress in March of 1948. After World War I, the economic devastation of Germany caused by burdensome reparations payments led to the rise of Hitler. The Allies didn't want this to happen again and the Marshall Plan was devised to make sure that those conditions didn't arise again.

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