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Bessie Smith 1916 - 1994

Bessie Smith of Jacksonville, Pulaski County, AR was born on July 30, 1916, and died at age 78 years old in November 1994.
Bessie Smith
Jacksonville, Pulaski County, AR 72076
July 30, 1916
November 1994
Female
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Bessie Smith's History: 1916 - 1994

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  • 07/30
    1916

    Birthday

    July 30, 1916
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  • 11/dd
    1994

    Death

    November 1994
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    Unknown
    Cause of death
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    Bessie Smith lived 6 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 78.
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In 1916, in the year that Bessie Smith was born, visiting nurse Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in the U.S. at 46 Amboy St. in Brooklyn New York. Ten days after the clinic opened, Sanger was arrested for "violating laws against giving out birth control information" which was defined as obscenity. The clinic was not handing out birth control - just information about sex and birth control methods. (The Comstock law categorized information about abortion, family planning, and contraception as “obscene”.) The clinics and organizations that Sanger established later evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
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In 1952, when she was 36 years old, on July 2, Dr. Jonas E. Salk tested the first dead-virus polio vaccine on 43 children. The worst epidemic of polio had broken out that year - in the U.S. there were 58,000 cases reported. Of these, 3,145 people had died and 21,269 were left with mild to disabling paralysis.
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