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Doshia Edwards 1889 - 1983

Doshia Edwards of Burnsville, Yancey County, North Carolina was born on September 21, 1889, and died at age 93 years old in May 1983.
Doshia Edwards
Burnsville, Yancey County, North Carolina 28714
September 21, 1889
May 1983
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    1889

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    September 21, 1889
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  • 05/dd
    1983

    Death

    May 1983
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In 1889, in the year that Doshia Edwards was born, on May 31st, the South Fork Dam collapsed. Located in western Pennsylvania, the dam failed - sending more than 20 million tons of water into the towns below it. The flood killed more than 2,200 people in and around Johnstown. The newly formed Red Cross responded to the disaster.
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In 1943, Doshia was 54 years old 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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