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Vida Oleif Shields 1919 - 2007

Vida Oleif Shields of Clarendon, Donley County, Texas was born on July 11, 1919, and died at age 87 years old on March 9, 2007.
Vida Oleif Shields
Clarendon, Donley County, Texas 79226
July 11, 1919
March 9, 2007
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  • 07/11
    1919

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    July 11, 1919
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  • 03/9
    2007

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    March 9, 2007
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    Vida Oleif Shields lived 15 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 87.
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In 1919, in the year that Vida Oleif Shields was born, in the summer and early autumn, race riots erupted in 26 U.S. cities, resulting in hundreds of deaths and even more people being badly hurt. In most cases, African-Americans were the victims. It was called the "Red Summer". Men who were returning from World War I needed jobs and there was competition for those jobs among the races. Tension was heightened by the use by many companies of blacks as strikebreakers.
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In 1964, this person was 45 years old 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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