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Lela T Purvis 1943 - 2008

Lela T Purvis of Owingsville, Bath County, KY was born on May 9, 1943, and died at age 65 years old on June 2, 2008.
Lela T Purvis
Owingsville, Bath County, KY 40360
May 9, 1943
June 2, 2008
Female
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  • 05/9
    1943

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    May 9, 1943
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  • 06/2
    2008

    Death

    June 2, 2008
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    Lela T Purvis lived 6 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 65.
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In 1943, in the year that Lela T Purvis was born, 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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In 1954, Lela was just 11 years old when on May 17th, the Supreme Court released a decision on Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. The ruling stated that state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students was unconstitutional thus paving the way for integration in schools.
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