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Thelma Spelbring 1917 - 1999

Thelma Spelbring of Newton, Jasper County, IL was born on December 28, 1917, and died at age 81 years old on March 11, 1999.
Thelma Spelbring
Newton, Jasper County, IL 62448
December 28, 1917
March 11, 1999
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  • 12/28
    1917

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    December 28, 1917
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  • 03/11
    1999

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    March 11, 1999
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    Thelma Spelbring lived 3 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 81.
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In 1917, in the year that Thelma Spelbring 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 1934, at the age of 17 years old, Thelma was alive when on November 11th 1933, an extremely strong dust storm hit South Dakota, stripping topsoil. Other strong dust storms had occurred during 1933. Severe droughts continued to hit the Great Plains and the dust storms devastated agricultural production as well as people's' lives for several years. The Roosevelt administration and scientists eventually determined that farming practices had caused the conditions that led to the dust storms and the changes they implemented in farming stopped the Dust Bowl.
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