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Maryetta Black 1919 - 1983

Maryetta Black of Chicago, Cook County, Illinois was born on November 27, 1919, and died at age 63 years old in October 1983.
Maryetta Black
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois 60690
November 27, 1919
October 1983
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Maryetta Black's History: 1919 - 1983

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  • 11/27
    1919

    Birthday

    November 27, 1919
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  • 10/dd
    1983

    Death

    October 1983
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    Maryetta Black lived 9 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 63.
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In 1919, in the year that Maryetta Black 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 1943, by the time she was 24 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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