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James W. Dykes 1920 - 2006

James Weldon Dykes of Winnsboro, Wood County, Texas was born on February 16, 1920. James Dykes was married to Ruth E. (House) Dykes on June 13, 1992 in Franklin County, TX, and died at age 85 years old on January 12, 2006.

James Weldon Dykes

Winnsboro, Wood County, Texas 75494

February 16, 1920

January 12, 2006

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02/16

1920

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February 16, 1920

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Franklin County, Texas
01/12

2006

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January 12, 2006

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In 1920, in the year that James W. Dykes was born, on January 1, over 6000 people were arrested and put in prison because they were suspected of being communists. . Many had to be released in a few weeks and only 3 guns were found in their homes. The U.S. Department of Justice "red hunt" netted thousands of "radicals" and suspected "communists" and aliens were deported. But the "hunt" ended after Attorney General Palmer forecast a massive radical uprising on May Day and the day passed without incident.

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In 1934, he was only 14 years old when on November 11th 1933, an extremely strong dust storm hit South Dakota, stripping topsoil. Other strong dust storms had occurred during 1933. Severe droughts continued to hit the Great Plains and the dust storms devastated agricultural production as well as people's' lives for several years. The Roosevelt administration and scientists eventually determined that farming practices had caused the conditions that led to the dust storms and the changes they implemented in farming stopped the Dust Bowl.

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