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Bessie Fort 1924 - 1981

Bessie Fort was born on September 17, 1924, and died at age 57 years old in September 1981. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Bessie Fort.

Bessie Fort

September 17, 1924

September 1981

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September 17, 1924

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1981

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September 1981

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Bessie Fort lived 17 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 56.

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In 1924, in the year that Bessie Fort was born, J. Edgar Hoover, at the age of 29, was appointed the sixth director of the Bureau of Investigation by Calvin Coolidge (which later became the Federal Bureau of Investigation). The Bureau had approximately 650 employees, including 441 Special Agents. A former employee of the Justice Department, Hoover accepted his new position on the proviso that the bureau was to be completely divorced from politics and that the director report only to the attorney general.

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In 1943, when she was 19 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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