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Lillie Roby 1914 - 1987

Lillie Roby of Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan was born on December 25, 1914, and died at age 72 years old in May 1987.
Lillie Roby
Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan 48204
December 25, 1914
May 1987
Female
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Lillie Roby's History: 1914 - 1987

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    1914

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    December 25, 1914
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  • 05/dd
    1987

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    May 1987
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    Lillie Roby lived exactly as long as the average family member when died at the age of 72.
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In 1914, in the year that Lillie Roby was born, in June, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated by a Yugoslavian national. Austria-Hungary delivered an ultimatum to Serbia. Other major powers took sides - and World War I began: Austria declared war on Serbia; Germany on Russia and France; Britain on Germany . . . and on it went until most of the world was embroiled in the war.
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In 1943, Lillie was 29 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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