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Ruth Powers 1921 - 1995

Ruth Powers of Smithton, Saint Clair County, IL was born on April 18, 1921, and died at age 73 years old on January 24, 1995.
Ruth Powers
Smithton, Saint Clair County, IL 62285
April 18, 1921
January 24, 1995
Female
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  • 04/18
    1921

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    April 18, 1921
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  • 01/24
    1995

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    January 24, 1995
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In 1921, in the year that Ruth Powers was born, in May, the Emergency Quota Act - or Emergency Immigration Act - was passed. The law restricted the number of immigrants to 357,000 per year. It also established an immigration quota in which only 3 per cent of the total population of any ethnic group already in the USA in 1910, could be admitted to America after 1921. Although the Act was supposed to be temporary, it stayed in effect until 1965.
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In 1943, she was 22 years old 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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