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Thelma Ferguson 1904 - 1986

Thelma Ferguson of Pine Bluff, Jefferson County, Arkansas was born on April 8, 1904, and died at age 82 years old in December 1986.
Thelma Ferguson
Pine Bluff, Jefferson County, Arkansas 71611
April 8, 1904
December 1986
Female
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    1904

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    April 8, 1904
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  • 12/dd
    1986

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    December 1986
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In 1904, in the year that Thelma Ferguson was born, the "Teddy's Bear" was first produced. After seeing a political cartoon of President Teddy Roosevelt refusing to kill a clubbed and tied up bear, Jewish Russian immigrant Morris Michtom - who owned a candy shop and sold stuffed animals that he and his wife made at night at the store - made a "Teddy's Bear" and put it in his shop's window. The stuffed bears were an immediate success and Michtom and his wife went on to found the Ideal Novelty and Toy Co.
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In 1943, at the age of 39 years old, Thelma 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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