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Clarence E Thornton 1919 - 2002

Clarence E Thornton of Portland, Multnomah County, OR was born on July 12, 1919, and died at age 82 years old on May 2, 2002.
Clarence E Thornton
Portland, Multnomah County, OR 97203
July 12, 1919
May 2, 2002
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  • 07/12
    1919

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    July 12, 1919
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  • 05/2
    2002

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    May 2, 2002
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    Clarence E Thornton lived 11 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 82.
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In 1919, in the year that Clarence E Thornton was born, 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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In 1956, Clarence was 37 years old when on May 20th, the U.S. tested the first hydrogen bomb dropped from a plane over Bikini Atoll. Previously, hydrogen bombs had only been tested on the ground. The Atomic Age moved forward.
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