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Jessie B Mckelphin 1916 - 2009

Jessie B Mckelphin of Chicago, Cook County, IL was born on January 25, 1916, and died at age 93 years old on May 31, 2009.
Jessie B Mckelphin
Chicago, Cook County, IL 60620
January 25, 1916
May 31, 2009
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  • 01/25
    1916

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    January 25, 1916
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  • 05/31
    2009

    Death

    May 31, 2009
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    Jessie B Mckelphin lived 31 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 93.
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In 1916, in the year that Jessie B Mckelphin was born, in June, the U.S. Congress authorized a plan to expand the armed forces over the next five years. Called the National Defense Act of 1916, the national law expanded the National Guard and Army (the Army added an aviation unit), created the Reserves, and gave the President expanded authority to federalize the National Guard. It also allowed the government to stockpile, in advance, materiel to be used in wartime.
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In 1943, when she was 27 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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