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Otis Byrd 1943 - 2008

Otis Byrd of Bolingbrook, Will County, IL was born on March 7, 1943, and died at age 65 years old on March 16, 2008.
Otis Byrd
Bolingbrook, Will County, IL 60440
March 7, 1943
March 16, 2008
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  • 03/7
    1943

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    March 7, 1943
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  • 03/16
    2008

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    March 16, 2008
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    Otis Byrd lived 5 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 65.
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In 1943, in the year that Otis Byrd 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, Otis was only 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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