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May Waligora 1919 - 2009

May Waligora of Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, NY was born on June 29, 1919, and died at age 89 years old on March 10, 2009.
May Waligora
Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, NY 12601
June 29, 1919
March 10, 2009
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May Waligora's History: 1919 - 2009

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  • 06/29
    1919

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    June 29, 1919
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  • 03/10
    2009

    Death

    March 10, 2009
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    May Waligora lived 15 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 89.
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In 1919, in the year that May Waligora was born, in the summer and early autumn, race riots erupted in 26 U.S. cities, resulting in hundreds of deaths and even more people being badly hurt. In most cases, African-Americans were the victims. It was called the "Red Summer". Men who were returning from World War I needed jobs and there was competition for those jobs among the races. Tension was heightened by the use by many companies of blacks as strikebreakers.
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In 1943, she was 24 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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