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Dorothy Jenkins 1919 - 2000

Dorothy Jenkins of Springfield, Sangamon County, IL was born on January 14, 1919, and died at age 81 years old on July 13, 2000.
Dorothy Jenkins
Springfield, Sangamon County, IL 62707
January 14, 1919
July 13, 2000
Female
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  • 01/14
    1919

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    January 14, 1919
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  • 07/13
    2000

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    July 13, 2000
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    Dorothy Jenkins lived 10 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 81.
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In 1919, in the year that Dorothy Jenkins 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 1943, at the age of 24 years old, Dorothy was alive when 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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