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Velma Cortez 1922 - 1988

Velma Cortez of Des Allemands, Saint Charles County, LA was born on May 20, 1922, and died at age 66 years old on August 9, 1988.

Velma Cortez

Des Allemands, Saint Charles County, LA 70030

May 20, 1922

August 9, 1988

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1922

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May 20, 1922

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1988

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August 9, 1988

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In 1922, in the year that Velma Cortez 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 1931, she was just 9 years old when on May 1st, the Empire State Building opened in New York City. At 1,454 feet (including the roof and antenna), it was the tallest building in the world until the World Trade Center's North Tower was built in 1970. (It is now the 34th tallest.) Opening at the beginning of the Great Depression, most of the offices in the Empire State Building remained unoccupied for years and the observation deck was an equal source of revenue and kept the building profitable.

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