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Donetta Mortensen Melton 1922 - 2010

Donetta Mortensen Melton of Price, Carbon County, Utah was born on May 3, 1922, and died at age 88 years old on May 6, 2010.

Donetta Mortensen Melton
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Price, Carbon County, Utah 84501
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May 3, 1922
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In 1922, in the year that Donetta Mortensen Melton 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, Donetta was 20 years old when 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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Melton, James (Apr 30, 1947 - Jul 17, 2008) Melton, Gertrude (Nov 1, 1922 - Jun 1986) Melton, Eva (Dec 4, 1926 - Jan 19, 1993) Melton, Florence (Oct 2, 1918 - Jul 10, 1988) Melton, Nancy (Sep 22, 1940 - Apr 29, 2002) Melton, James (Nov 26, 1978 - Sep 8, 2006) Melton, Mary (Jul 25, 1907 - Nov 1977) Melton, Jennie (Apr 13, 1939 - Jul 15, 2009) Melton, Norma (Jul 23, 1922 - Feb 15, 2011) Melton, Matthew (Feb 23, 1971 - Jul 11, 2007)
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