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Bessie Mcewen 1943 - 1998

Bessie Mcewen of Oxford, Lafayette County, MS was born on June 1, 1943, and died at age 54 years old on April 14, 1998.

Bessie Mcewen

Oxford, Lafayette County, MS 38655

June 1, 1943

April 14, 1998

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1943

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June 1, 1943

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1998

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April 14, 1998

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Bessie Mcewen lived 19 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 54.

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In 1943, in the year that Bessie Mcewen was born, 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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In 1952, Bessie was only 9 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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