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Shirley Flotsam Nichting 1917 - 2008

Shirley Flotsam Nichting of Jackson, Jackson County, Ohio was born on November 21, 1917, and died at age 90 years old on November 9, 2008.
Shirley Flotsam Nichting
Jackson, Jackson County, Ohio 45640
November 21, 1917
November 9, 2008
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  • 11/21
    1917

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    November 21, 1917
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  • 11/9
    2008

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    November 9, 2008
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    Shirley Flotsam Nichting lived 14 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 90.
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In 1917, in the year that Shirley Flotsam Nichting 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 1943, Shirley was 26 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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