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Lester Motes 1929 - 1983

Lester Motes was born on August 5, 1929, and died at age 54 years old in August 1983. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Lester Motes.
Lester Motes
August 5, 1929
August 1983
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  • 08/5
    1929

    Birthday

    August 5, 1929
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  • 08/dd
    1983

    Death

    August 1983
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    Lester Motes lived 16 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 53.
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In 1929, in the year that Lester Motes was born, on October 29th (Black Tuesday), the stock market crashed in the United States. Billions of dollars were lost and some investors committed suicide as a result, having lost their fortunes. This ushered in the 12 year, worldwide Great Depression.
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In 1943, by the time he was merely 14 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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