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Amelia Velagarza 1942 - 2010

Amelia Velagarza of Laredo, Webb County, Texas was born on January 20, 1942, and died at age 68 years old on January 26, 2010.
Amelia Velagarza
Laredo, Webb County, Texas 78041
January 20, 1942
January 26, 2010
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Amelia Velagarza's History: 1942 - 2010

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  • 01/20
    1942

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    January 20, 1942
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  • 01/26
    2010

    Death

    January 26, 2010
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    Amelia Velagarza lived exactly as long as the average family member when died at the age of 68.
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In 1942, in the year that Amelia Velagarza was born, on February 19th, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. This authorized the Secretary of War to "prescribe certain areas as military zones." On March 21st, he signed Public Law 503 which was approved after an hour discussion in the Senate and 30 minutes in the House. The Law provided for enforcement of his Executive Order. This cleared the way for approximately 120,000 men, women, and children of Japanese ancestry to be evicted from the West Coast and to be held in concentration camps and other confinement sites across the country. In Hawaii, a few thousand were detained. German and Italian Americans in the U.S. were also confined.
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In 1952, Amelia was just 10 years old when on July 2, Dr. Jonas E. Salk tested the first dead-virus polio vaccine on 43 children. The worst epidemic of polio had broken out that year - in the U.S. there were 58,000 cases reported. Of these, 3,145 people had died and 21,269 were left with mild to disabling paralysis.
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