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Thomas Borek 1920 - 1984

Thomas Borek of Yonkers, Westchester County, NY was born on July 19, 1920, and died at age 63 years old in May 1984.
Thomas Borek
Yonkers, Westchester County, NY 10703
July 19, 1920
May 1984
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    1920

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    1984

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    May 1984
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    Thomas Borek lived 10 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 63.
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In 1920, in the year that Thomas Borek was born, speakeasies replaced saloons as the center of social activity. After the 18th Amendment was ratified and selling alcohol became illegal, saloons closed and speakeasies took their place. Speakeasies, also called a blind pig or blind tiger, were "so called because of the practice of speaking quietly about such a place in public, or when inside it, so as not to alert the police or neighbors". There were a lot of them and they were very popular. And where saloons often prohibited women, they were encouraged at speakeasies because of the added profits.
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In 1943, he was 23 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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