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Robert A Newsom 1920 - 2010

Robert A Newsom of Oxford, Lafayette County, MS was born on November 13, 1920, and died at age 89 years old on August 8, 2010.
Robert A Newsom
Oxford, Lafayette County, MS 38655
November 13, 1920
August 8, 2010
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  • 11/13
    1920

    Birthday

    November 13, 1920
    Birthdate
    Unknown
    Birthplace
  • Ethnicity & Family History

    White, Citizen
  • Nationality & Locations

    United States
  • Early Life & Education

    1 Year Of High School
  • Military Service

    Military serial#: 34136280 Enlisted: November 29, 1941 in Cp Shelby Mississippi Military branch: Air Corps Rank: Private, Regular Army (including Officers, Nurses, Warrant Officers, And Enlisted Men)
  • Professional Career

    Semiskilled Cranemen, Derrickmen, Hoistmen, And Shovelmen
  • 08/8
    2010

    Death

    August 8, 2010
    Death date
    Unknown
    Cause of death
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In 1920, in the year that Robert A Newsom was born, on January 1, over 6000 people were arrested and put in prison because they were suspected of being communists. . Many had to be released in a few weeks and only 3 guns were found in their homes. The U.S. Department of Justice "red hunt" netted thousands of "radicals" and suspected "communists" and aliens were deported. But the "hunt" ended after Attorney General Palmer forecast a massive radical uprising on May Day and the day passed without incident.
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In 1943, when he was 23 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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