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Willis Simmons 1921 - 2006

Willis Simmons of Detroit, Wayne County, MI was born on October 15, 1921, and died at age 84 years old on February 13, 2006.

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In 1921, in the year that Willis Simmons was born, the silent film The Sheik, directed by George Melford and starring Rudolph Valentino and Agnes Ayres (also featuring Adolphe Menjou) debuted on October 21st. Critics weren't enthusiastic but the public loved it - in the first few weeks 125,000 people had seen the movie - and it eventually exceeded $1 million in ticket sales. And Rudolph Valentino, an Italian American, became the heartthrob of a female generation.
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In 1943, when he was 22 years old, 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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Simmons, Milton (Born 1858) Stephens, Bertha (Born Oct 21, 1900) Simmons, Geraldine (Dec 7, 1922 - Oct 22, 2002) Simmons, Tiffany (Born c. Oct 30, 1978) Simmons, Mary Simmons, Joel (Born Apr 20, 1847) Simmons, Laurinda  (Born Feb 28, 1885) Simmons, Roland (Born c. 1915) Simmons, Maxi (Born c. 1920) Simmons, Albert (Born Feb 4, 1908)
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