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Asun Shanks 1922 - 2008

Asun Shanks of La Puente, Los Angeles County, CA was born on August 15, 1922, and died at age 86 years old on October 24, 2008.
Asun Shanks
La Puente, Los Angeles County, CA 91746
August 15, 1922
October 24, 2008
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  • 08/15
    1922

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    August 15, 1922
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  • 10/24
    2008

    Death

    October 24, 2008
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    Asun Shanks lived 14 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 86.
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In 1922, in the year that Asun Shanks was born, on June 22, coal miners in Herrin Illinois, were on strike (coal miners had been on strike nationally since April 1). The striking miners were outraged at the strikebreakers (scabs) that the company had brought in and laid siege to the mine. Three union workers were killed when gunfire was exchanged. The next day, union miners killed 23 strikebreakers and mine guards. No one, on either side, ever faced jail time.
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In 1943, by the time this person was 21 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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