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Helen Meeks 1911 - 1990

Helen Meeks of Jamaica, Queens County, NY was born on March 12, 1911, and died at age 78 years old on March 10, 1990. Helen Meeks was buried at Calverton National Cemetery Section 1 Site 364 210 Princeton Boulevard - Rt 25, in Calverton.
Helen Meeks
Jamaica, Queens County, NY 11432
March 12, 1911
March 10, 1990
Female
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  • 03/12
    1911

    Birthday

    March 12, 1911
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  • Military Service

    Branch of service: Us Navy Rank attained: EM1/C Wars/Conflicts: World War Ii
  • 03/10
    1990

    Death

    March 10, 1990
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    Unknown
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  • Gravesite & Burial

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    Calverton National Cemetery Section 1 Site 364 210 Princeton Boulevard - Rt 25, in Calverton, Ny 11933
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In 1911, in the year that Helen Meeks 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, she was 32 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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