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Bessie Smith 1893 - 1974

Bessie Smith of Pink Hill, Duplin County, North Carolina was born on October 10, 1893, and died at age 80 years old in February 1974.
Bessie Smith
Pink Hill, Duplin County, North Carolina 28572
October 10, 1893
February 1974
Female
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Bessie Smith's History: 1893 - 1974

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    October 10, 1893
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    1974

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    February 1974
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    Bessie Smith lived 8 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 80.
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In 1893, in the year that Bessie Smith was born, on November 7th, the women of Colorado were given the right to vote via a state referendum. Fifty-five percent of voters turned out and the referendum passed with 35,798 voting in favor and 29,551 voting against.
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In 1933, at the age of 40 years old, Bessie was alive when the day after being inaugurated, the new President, Franklin Roosevelt, declared a four-day bank holiday to stop people from withdrawing their money from shaky banks (the bank run). Within 5 days of his administration, the Emergency Banking Act was passed - reorganizing banks and closing insolvent ones. In his first 100 days, he asked Congress to repeal Prohibition (which they did), signed the Tennessee Valley Authority Act, signed legislation that paid commodity farmers to leave their fields fallow, thus ending surpluses and boosting prices, signed a bill that gave workers the right to unionize and bargain collectively for higher wages and better working conditions as well as suspending some antitrust laws and establishing a federally funded Public Works Administration, and won passage of 12 other major laws that helped the economy.
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