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Ruth K Swetnam 1909 - 1989

Ruth K Swetnam of Glenshaw, Allegheny County, PA was born on December 10, 1909, and died at age 79 years old on December 2, 1989.
Ruth K Swetnam
Glenshaw, Allegheny County, PA 15116
December 10, 1909
December 2, 1989
Female
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  • 12/10
    1909

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    December 10, 1909
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  • 12/2
    1989

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    December 2, 1989
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    Ruth K Swetnam lived 4 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 79.
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In 1909, in the year that Ruth K Swetnam was born, the New York Times published the first movie review. It was a report on D.W. Griffith's movie "Pippa Passes" also called "The Song of Conscience", a silent film. The review said that this work was moving away from "lurid material that attracted the wrath of censors and concerned citizens and toward more respectable ends. The movie was the story of a young female factory worker, on her day off, wandering and singing - thus changing the hearts of those around her towards good.
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In 1919, at the age of only 10 years old, Ruth was alive when 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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