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This is the county record of the marriage between Howard Lee and Ella McNair in May 1940 in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Both already widowed, they decided to marry each other while they hit middle age. Lee was a contractor and McNair was a domestic…

An article from the Philadelphia Inquirer about the Chester Race Riots. The article mentions the shootings of 3 African-Americans and a warning from Philadelphia police of reports that African-Americans from that city were intending to come to…