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Alva Riggsby 1906 - 1970

Alva Riggsby of Clearfield, Rowan County, Kentucky was born on October 31, 1906, and died at age 63 years old in April 1970.

Alva Riggsby
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Clearfield, Rowan County, Kentucky 40313
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In 1906, in the year that Alva Riggsby was born, author Upton Sinclair exposed the public-health threat of the meat-packing industry in his book The Jungle. While his intent was to show the lives of exploited lives of immigrants in Chicago and other industrialized cities, most people were horrified by how the meat that ended up on their tables was handled. There was such an outcry that legislation was passed to regulate meat packing. Sinclair said " "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach."
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In 1923, when he was 17 years old, Harlem's Cotton Club opened in New York City. Owned by a bootlegger and gangster, it was a 700 seat speakeasy that catered to a "white only" clientele. But most of the entertainers were African-American and featured some of the best entertainers of the time such as Lena Horne, the Nicholas Brothers, Ethel Waters, and Cab Calloway.
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Riggsby, Eva (Oct 10, 1932 - Dec 1971) Riggsby, Alice (Jan 16, 1912 - Jul 1977) Riggsby, Robert (Nov 28, 1893 - Aug 1971) Riggsby, Martha (Jan 2, 1892 - Sep 1973) Riggsby, Oakley (Apr 7, 1920 - Jun 11, 1996) Riggsby, Beager (Aug 14, 1933 - Jan 30, 2005) Riggsby, William (Oct 29, 1886 - Feb 1964) Riggsby, Doris (Oct 23, 1929 - May 3, 1999) Riggsby, Helen (Mar 1, 1920 - Jun 28, 1989) Riggsby, Fred (Jan 15, 1910 - May 1977)
Riggsby, Wilda (Apr 11, 1918 - Dec 1994) Riggsby, Jack (Sep 11, 1923 - Oct 1983) Riggsby, Bobby (Sep 23, 1935 - Jun 23, 2011) Riggsby, Crawford (Feb 3, 1912 - Apr 1958) Riggsby, Frank (Jun 21, 1903 - Mar 1970) Riggsby, Debra (Feb 27, 1952 - Jun 25, 2010) Riggsby, Carrie (Jul 4, 1920 - Aug 17, 1991) Riggsby, Mollie (Jun 1, 1889 - Nov 1990) Riggsby, Robert (Jul 12, 1920 - Jan 18, 1995) Riggsby, Violet (Mar 11, 1928 - Sep 1, 2005)
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