When Norbert Adolf Sackey Jr was born on 6 October 1932, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States, his father, Norbert Adolf Sackey SR, was 24 and his mother, Leona Philomena Lasage, was 25. He lived in Kenmore, Erie, New York, United States in 1940. He died on 14 October 2007, in Sterling Heights, Macomb, Michigan, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Saint Lawrence Cemetery, Utica, Macomb, Michigan, United States.
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The Bureau of Investigation's name was changed to the Federal Bureau of Investigation to help citizens know that the Government is helping protect from threats both domestically and abroad.
The 1943 Detroit Race Riot started on the evening of June 20 and lasted through June 22. It occurred in a period of dramatic social tensions associated with the military buildup of World War II, as Detroit's automotive industry was converted to the war effort. What fueled the fire the most was the arrival of nearly 400,000 migrants, both African-American and White Southerners, and the competition for space and jobs. It was suppressed after 6,000 federal troops were ordered into the city to restore peace. A total of 34 people were killed, 25 of them African-Americans and most at the hands of white police or National Guardsmen; 433 were wounded, 75 percent of them African-American.
The civil rights movement was a movement to enforce constitutional and legal rights for African Americans that the other Americans enjoyed. By using nonviolent campaigns, those involved secured new recognition in laws and federal protection of all Americans. Moderators worked with Congress to pass of several pieces of legislation that overturned discriminatory practices.
West African (Ghana): name found among the Ga people, from an Anglicized form of the Akan personal name Sakyi, given to a boy born after a battle. It is related to the Twi (a dialect of the Akan language) word kɔkɔsakyi ‘vulture’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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