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Rita Swigert 1917 - 1983

Rita Swigert of North Providence, Providence County, RI was born on August 8, 1917, and died at age 66 years old in November 1983.
Rita Swigert
North Providence, Providence County, RI 02911
August 8, 1917
November 1983
Female
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    1917

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    August 8, 1917
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  • 11/dd
    1983

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    November 1983
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    Rita Swigert lived 9 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 66.
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In 1917, in the year that Rita Swigert was born, on July 28, between ten and fifteen thousand blacks silently walked down New York City's Fifth Avenue to protest racial discrimination and violence. Lynchings in Waco Texas and hundreds of African-Americans killed in East St. Louis Illinois had sparked the protest. Picket signs said "Mother, do lynchers go to heaven?" "Mr. President, why not make America safe for democracy?" "Thou shalt not kill." "Pray for the Lady Macbeth's of East St. Louis" and "Give us a chance to live."
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In 1958, by the time she was 41 years old, on January 31st, Explorer I, the United States' answer to Sputnik I (and 2,) was launched. America had entered the Space Race. The first spacecraft to detect the Van Allen radiation belt, it remained in orbit until 1970.
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