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Halcyon Benjamin 1905 - 1992

Halcyon Benjamin of Berwyn, Cook County, IL was born on July 28, 1905, and died at age 86 years old on January 4, 1992.
Halcyon Benjamin
Berwyn, Cook County, IL 60402
July 28, 1905
January 4, 1992
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Halcyon Benjamin's History: 1905 - 1992

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  • 07/28
    1905

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    July 28, 1905
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  • 01/4
    1992

    Death

    January 4, 1992
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    Halcyon Benjamin lived 14 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 86.
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In 1905, in the year that Halcyon Benjamin was born, 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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In 1943, by the time she was 38 years old, on June 20th through June 22nd, the Detroit Race Riot erupted at Belle Isle Park. The rioting spread throughout the city (made worse by false rumors of attacks on blacks and whites) and resulted in the deployment of 6,000 Federal troops. 34 people were killed, (25 of them black) - mostly by white police or National Guardsmen, 433 were wounded (75 percent of them black) and an estimated $2 million of property was destroyed. The same summer, there were riots in Beaumont, Texas and Harlem, New York.
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