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Yetta Cohen 1917 - 1986

Yetta Cohen of Chicago, Cook County, Illinois was born on August 16, 1917, and died at age 68 years old in January 1986.
Yetta Cohen
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois 60626
August 16, 1917
January 1986
Female
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    1917

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    August 16, 1917
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    1986

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    January 1986
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    Yetta Cohen lived 9 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 68.
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In 1917, in the year that Yetta Cohen 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 1920, by the time she was merely 3 years old, the Volstead Act became law. Formally called the National Prohibition Act, the Volstead Act enabled law enforcement agencies to carry out the 18th Amendment. It said that "no person shall manufacture, sell, barter, transport, import, export, deliver, or furnish any intoxicating liquor except as authorized by this act" and defined intoxicating liquor as any beverage containing more than 0.5% alcohol by volume.
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