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Virginia Swinford 1917 - 1987

Virginia Swinford of Arthur, Douglas County, Illinois was born on January 23, 1917, and died at age 70 years old in November 1987.

Virginia Swinford

Arthur, Douglas County, Illinois 61911

January 23, 1917

November 1987

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Virginia Swinford lived 2 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 70.

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In 1917, in the year that Virginia Swinford 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 1952, she was 35 years old when on July 2, Dr. Jonas E. Salk tested the first dead-virus polio vaccine on 43 children. The worst epidemic of polio had broken out that year - in the U.S. there were 58,000 cases reported. Of these, 3,145 people had died and 21,269 were left with mild to disabling paralysis.

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