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Hedwig Ponka 1921 - 2011

Hedwig Ponka of Westfield, Chautauqua County, NY was born on January 2, 1921, and died at age 90 years old on August 15, 2011.

Hedwig Ponka
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Westfield, Chautauqua County, NY 14787
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Updated: October 4, 2011
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In 1921, in the year that Hedwig Ponka 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 1941, when she was 20 years old, on June 25th, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 8802, prohibiting racial discrimination in the defense industry. EO 8802 was the first federal action to prohibit employment discrimination - without prejudice as to "race, creed, color, or national origin" - in the U.S. Civil Rights groups had planned a march on Washington D.C. to protest for equal rights but with the signing of the Order, they canceled the March.
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Ponka, Conrad (Feb 19, 1913 - Dec 15, 1991) Ponka, Claire (Aug 4, 1918 - Jul 17, 2000) Ponka, Barbara (Oct 14, 1882 - May 1968) Ponka, Joseph (May 18, 1913 - Mar 15, 1993) Ponka, Edna (Oct 3, 1921 - Sep 6, 2007) Ponka, Cecilia (Jul 30, 1905 - Jan 2, 1998) Ponka, Max (Aug 13, 1924 - May 21, 1989) Ponka, Jerome (May 7, 1926 - Oct 3, 2008)
Ponka, Genevieve (Nov 28, 1901 - Jul 14, 1994) Ponka, Leona (Aug 10, 1923 - May 1969) Ponka, Pauline (Apr 6, 1888 - Mar 1977) Ponka, Delores (Feb 22, 1936 - Dec 1, 2003) Ponka, Michael (Sep 8, 1900 - Sep 5, 1990) Ponka, Daniel (Jan 23, 1956 - Sep 21, 2005) Ponka, Walter (Nov 8, 1916 - Feb 3, 2003) Ponka, Anna (Sep 18, 1951 - Aug 25, 2010)
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