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Ruth Blackford 1916 - 1999

Ruth Blackford of Lynn, Randolph County, IN was born on January 20, 1916, and died at age 83 years old on November 3, 1999.

Ruth Blackford

Lynn, Randolph County, IN 47355

January 20, 1916

November 3, 1999

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January 20, 1916

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1999

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November 3, 1999

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In 1916, in the year that Ruth Blackford was born, in June, the U.S. Congress authorized a plan to expand the armed forces over the next five years. Called the National Defense Act of 1916, the national law expanded the National Guard and Army (the Army added an aviation unit), created the Reserves, and gave the President expanded authority to federalize the National Guard. It also allowed the government to stockpile, in advance, materiel to be used in wartime.

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In 1943, at the age of 27 years old, Ruth was alive when 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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