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Dortha May Cockroft 1921 - 2009

Dortha May Cockroft of Sugar Land, Fort Bend County, Texas was born on September 29, 1921, and died at age 88 years old on October 14, 2009.

Dortha May Cockroft
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Sugar Land, Fort Bend County, Texas 77479
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September 29, 1921
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In 1921, in the year that Dortha May Cockroft was born, in May, the Emergency Quota Act - or Emergency Immigration Act - was passed. The law restricted the number of immigrants to 357,000 per year. It also established an immigration quota in which only 3 per cent of the total population of any ethnic group already in the USA in 1910, could be admitted to America after 1921. Although the Act was supposed to be temporary, it stayed in effect until 1965.
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In 1957, at the age of 36 years old, Dortha was alive when on September 24th, the "Little Rock Nine" (nine African-American students) entered Little Rock High School. Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus had previously prevented the students from entering the school at the beginning of the term with the Arkansas National Guard - they blocked the door. President Eisenhower ordered federal troops - the 101st Airborne Division of the United States Army - to guard the students and allow them entry.
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Cockroft, Barbara (Nov 20, 1915 - Jan 6, 2010) Cockroft, Mary (May 4, 1907 - Dec 1989) Cockroft, Kathryn (Feb 22, 1910 - Jul 30, 2005) Cockroft, Esther (Dec 8, 1904 - Aug 1, 1991) Cockroft, Lester (Aug 18, 1916 - Oct 29, 1991) Cockroft, Donald (Oct 23, 1908 - Jun 1976) Cockroft, John (Jun 15, 1893 - May 1977) Cockroft, Vincent (May 15, 1903 - Sep 1969) Cockroft, Cora (Dec 21, 1894 - Feb 5, 1995) Cockroft, Joseph (Nov 3, 1885 - Nov 1974)
Cockroft, Mary (Sep 24, 1920 - Dec 4, 2004) Cockroft, Mildred (Jun 12, 1879 - Nov 1968) Cockroft, Ralph (Jan 7, 1914 - Apr 6, 1989) Cockroft, Rodney (Dec 14, 1932 - Feb 20, 2005) Cockroft, Sarah (Mar 13, 1873 - Aug 1969) Cockroft, Cecil (Jan 21, 1896 - Nov 7, 1990) Cockroft, Edgar (Aug 27, 1891 - Aug 1968) Cockroft, Ada (May 20, 1916 - Oct 1982) Cockroft, John (Nov 5, 1915 - Oct 24, 1992) Cockroft, Robert (Sep 13, 1914 - Jan 9, 1974)
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