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Ben E Goforth 1938 - 2009

Ben E Goforth of Clyde, Haywood County, NC was born on May 18, 1938, and died at age 70 years old on January 18, 2009.
Ben E Goforth
Clyde, Haywood County, NC 28721
May 18, 1938
January 18, 2009
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  • 05/18
    1938

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    May 18, 1938
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  • 01/18
    2009

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    January 18, 2009
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    Ben E Goforth lived 1 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 70.
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In 1938, in the year that Ben E Goforth was born, on June 25th (a Saturday) the Fair Labor Standards Act was signed into law by President Roosevelt (along with 120 other bills). The Act banned oppressive child labor, set the minimum hourly wage at 25 cents, and established the maximum workweek at 44 hours. It faced a lot of opposition and in fighting for it, Roosevelt said "Do not let any calamity-howling executive with an income of $1,000 a day, ...tell you...that a wage of $11 a week is going to have a disastrous effect on all American industry."
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In 1943, by the time he was just 5 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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