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Cornelius Billups 1922 - 2009

Cornelius Billups of West Point, Clay County, MS was born on September 15, 1922, and died at age 86 years old on June 27, 2009.
Cornelius Billups
West Point, Clay County, MS 39773
September 15, 1922
June 27, 2009
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  • 09/15
    1922

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    September 15, 1922
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  • 06/27
    2009

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    June 27, 2009
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    Cornelius Billups lived 16 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 86.
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In 1922, in the year that Cornelius Billups 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 1942, when he was 20 years old, 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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