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Bessie Smith 1913 - 2004

Bessie Smith of East Stroudsburg, Monroe County, PA was born on May 14, 1913, and died at age 91 years old on November 18, 2004.
Bessie Smith
East Stroudsburg, Monroe County, PA 18301
May 14, 1913
November 18, 2004
Female
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Bessie Smith's History: 1913 - 2004

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  • 05/14
    1913

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    May 14, 1913
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  • 11/18
    2004

    Death

    November 18, 2004
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    Bessie Smith lived 19 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 91.
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In 1913, in the year that Bessie Smith was born, Henry Ford installed the first moving assembly line for the mass production of an entire automobile. It had previously taken 12 hours to assemble a whole vehicle - now it took only two hours and 30 minutes! Inspired by the production lines at flour mills, breweries, canneries and industrial bakeries, along with the disassembly of animal carcasses in Chicago’s meat-packing plants, Ford created moving belts for parts and the assembly line was born.
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In 1933, she was 20 years old when Frances Perkins became the first woman to hold a cabinet-level position, appointed by President Roosevelt to serve as Secretary of Labor. She told him that her priorities would be a 40-hour work week, a minimum wage, unemployment compensation, worker’s compensation, abolition of child labor, direct federal aid to the states for unemployment relief, Social Security, a revitalized federal employment service, and universal health insurance. President Roosevelt approved of all of them and most them were implemented during his terms as President. She served until his death in 1945.
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