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Melba Davis Scott 1924 - 2006

Melba Davis Scott of Saint Paul, Ramsey County, Minnesota was born on August 15, 1924, and died at age 81 years old on July 24, 2006.
Melba Davis Scott
Saint Paul, Ramsey County, Minnesota 55102
August 15, 1924
July 24, 2006
Female
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Melba Davis Scott's History: 1924 - 2006

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  • 08/15
    1924

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    August 15, 1924
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  • 07/24
    2006

    Death

    July 24, 2006
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    Melba Davis Scott lived 10 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 81.
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In 1924, in the year that Melba Davis Scott was born, in May, wealthy college students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb kidnapped and killed 14 year old Robert Franks "in the interest of science". Leopold and Loeb thought that they were intellectually superior and that they could commit the perfect crime and not be caught. They were brought in for questioning within 8 days and quickly confessed. Clarence Darrow was hired as their defense lawyer, getting them life imprisonment instead of a death sentence. Loeb was eventually killed in prison - Leopold was released after 33 years, dying of a heart attack at age 66.
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In 1943, when she was 19 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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