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Elmira Hawkins 1924 - 1980

Elmira Hawkins of Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas was born on October 14, 1924, and died at age 56 years old in December 1980.
Elmira Hawkins
Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas 72206
October 14, 1924
December 1980
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  • 10/14
    1924

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    October 14, 1924
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  • 12/dd
    1980

    Death

    December 1980
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    Elmira Hawkins lived 15 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 56.
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In 1924, in the year that Elmira Hawkins was born, in May, wealthy college students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb kidnapped and killed 14 year old Robert Franks "in the interest of science". Leopold and Loeb thought that they were intellectually superior and that they could commit the perfect crime and not be caught. They were brought in for questioning within 8 days and quickly confessed. Clarence Darrow was hired as their defense lawyer, getting them life imprisonment instead of a death sentence. Loeb was eventually killed in prison - Leopold was released after 33 years, dying of a heart attack at age 66.
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In 1943, she was 19 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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