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Walter L Dougherty 1919 - 2010

Walter L Dougherty of Springfield, Hampden County, MA was born on November 24, 1919, and died at age 90 years old on April 1, 2010.
Walter L Dougherty
Springfield, Hampden County, MA 01109
November 24, 1919
April 1, 2010
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  • 11/24
    1919

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    November 24, 1919
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  • 04/1
    2010

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    April 1, 2010
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In 1919, in the year that Walter L Dougherty 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 1920, when he was only 1 year old, on November 2, radio station KDKA began broadcasting in Pittsburgh, PA. This was the first commercial radio broadcast in the United States. Westinghouse, a leading manufacturer of radios and the backer of the station, chose the date because of the Presidential election. People liked it because they could hear about the results of the election between Harding and Cox before the morning papers arrived. Four years later, there were 600 commercial stations broadcasting in the U.S.
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