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Bessie Chumley 1909 - 1985

Bessie Chumley of Covington, Tipton County, Tennessee was born on March 8, 1909, and died at age 76 years old in June 1985.

Bessie Chumley

Covington, Tipton County, Tennessee 38019

March 8, 1909

June 1985

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In 1909, in the year that Bessie Chumley was born, the New York Times published the first movie review. It was a report on D.W. Griffith's movie "Pippa Passes" also called "The Song of Conscience", a silent film. The review said that this work was moving away from "lurid material that attracted the wrath of censors and concerned citizens and toward more respectable ends. The movie was the story of a young female factory worker, on her day off, wandering and singing - thus changing the hearts of those around her towards good.

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In 1941, when she was 32 years old, on June 25th, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 8802, prohibiting racial discrimination in the defense industry. EO 8802 was the first federal action to prohibit employment discrimination - without prejudice as to "race, creed, color, or national origin" - in the U.S. Civil Rights groups had planned a march on Washington D.C. to protest for equal rights but with the signing of the Order, they canceled the March.

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