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Sylvia Martonchik 1922 - 2011

Sylvia Martonchik was born on June 20, 1922, and died at age 88 years old on March 7, 2011.
Sylvia Martonchik
zip code 98087
June 20, 1922
March 7, 2011
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  • 06/20
    1922

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    June 20, 1922
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  • 03/7
    2011

    Death

    March 7, 2011
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    Sylvia Martonchik lived 1 year longer than the average family member when died at the age of 88.
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In 1922, in the year that Sylvia Martonchik was born, on June 22, coal miners in Herrin Illinois, were on strike (coal miners had been on strike nationally since April 1). The striking miners were outraged at the strikebreakers (scabs) that the company had brought in and laid siege to the mine. Three union workers were killed when gunfire was exchanged. The next day, union miners killed 23 strikebreakers and mine guards. No one, on either side, ever faced jail time.
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In 1964, at the age of 42 years old, Sylvia was alive when in June, three young civil rights workers - Andrew Goodman and Mickey Schwerner from New York City, and James Chaney from Meridian, Mississippi - were kidnapped and murdered in Mississippi. Working with "Freedom Summer", they were registering African-Americans to vote in the Southern states. Their bodies were found two months later. Although it was discovered that the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, the Neshoba County Sheriff's Office and the Philadelphia, Mississippi Police Department were involved, only 7 men were convicted and served less than six years.
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