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Gustavia Lofton 1911 - 1999

Gustavia Lofton of New Orleans, Orleans County, LA was born on October 1, 1911, and died at age 87 years old on March 2, 1999.
Gustavia Lofton
New Orleans, Orleans County, LA 70122
October 1, 1911
March 2, 1999
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  • 10/1
    1911

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    October 1, 1911
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  • 03/2
    1999

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    March 2, 1999
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    Gustavia Lofton lived 19 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 87.
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In 1911, in the year that Gustavia Lofton was born, the United States Supreme Court broke up Standard Oil in May. John D. Rockefeller established Standard Oil in 1870 and it was the largest oil refinery at the time. The Supreme Court found that Standard Oil of New Jersey (one of the many iterations of Standard Oil) was guilty of "monopolizing the petroleum industry through a series of abusive and anticompetitive actions". The Court broke up the several entities that comprised Standard Oil and they eventually became competing firms.
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In 1943, by the time this person was 32 years old, 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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