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Purity C Pitts 1934 - 2000

Purity C Pitts of Chesapeake, Chesapeake City County, VA was born on May 6, 1934, and died at age 66 years old on June 17, 2000.
Purity C Pitts
Chesapeake, Chesapeake City County, VA 23325
May 6, 1934
June 17, 2000
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Purity C Pitts' History: 1934 - 2000

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  • 05/6
    1934

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    May 6, 1934
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  • 06/17
    2000

    Death

    June 17, 2000
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    Purity C Pitts lived 5 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 66.
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In 1934, in the year that Purity C Pitts was born, on July 22nd, gangster John Dillinger was killed in Chicago. His gang had robbed banks and police stations, among other charges, and he was being hunted by J. Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI - although many in the public saw him as a "Robin Hood". A madam from a brothel in which he was hiding became an informer for the FBI and, after a shootout with FBI agents, Dillinger was shot and died.
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In 1943, Purity was merely 9 years old when 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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