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Ricky J Cooper 1964 - 1982

Ricky J Cooper of Cambridge, Isanti County, MN was born on May 9, 1964, and died at age 17 years old on February 21, 1982. Ricky Cooper was buried at Ft. Snelling National Cemetery Section W Site 2429 7601 34th Avenue, South, in Minneapolis.
Ricky J Cooper
Cambridge, Isanti County, MN 55008
May 9, 1964
February 21, 1982
Male
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  • 05/9
    1964

    Birthday

    May 9, 1964
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    Unknown
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  • Military Service

    Branch of service: Us Army Rank attained: SP4
  • 02/21
    1982

    Death

    February 21, 1982
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    Unknown
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    Ft. Snelling National Cemetery Section W Site 2429 7601 34th Avenue, South, in Minneapolis, Mn 55450
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In 1964, in the year that Ricky J Cooper was born, in June, three young civil rights workers - Andrew Goodman and Mickey Schwerner from New York City, and James Chaney from Meridian, Mississippi - were kidnapped and murdered in Mississippi. Working with "Freedom Summer", they were registering African-Americans to vote in the Southern states. Their bodies were found two months later. Although it was discovered that the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, the Neshoba County Sheriff's Office and the Philadelphia, Mississippi Police Department were involved, only 7 men were convicted and served less than six years.
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In 1970, at the age of merely 6 years old, Ricky was alive when on May 4th, four students at Kent State University in Ohio were shot and killed by National Guardsmen. The students were at a peaceful demonstration protesting the invasion of Cambodia by US forces. There had been precedent for the killing of American college students. The previous year, on May 15th, Alameda County Sheriffs used shotguns against U.C. Berkeley students at a protest for People's Park. One student died, one was blinded, 128 were injured.
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