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Bessie Smith 1928 - 1975

Bessie Smith of Boone, Watauga County, North Carolina was born on February 3, 1928, and died at age 47 years old in April 1975.
Bessie Smith
Boone, Watauga County, North Carolina 28607
February 3, 1928
April 1975
Female
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Bessie Smith's History: 1928 - 1975

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  • 02/3
    1928

    Birthday

    February 3, 1928
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  • 04/dd
    1975

    Death

    April 1975
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    Unknown
    Cause of death
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    Bessie Smith lived 25 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 47.
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In 1928, in the year that Bessie Smith was born, Mickie Mouse was born! He first appeared in Disney's Steamboat Willie, along with Minnie. Although they were in two previous shorts, this was the first to be distributed. Steamboat Willie took advantage of the new technology and was a "talkie" - music was coordinated with the animation. It became the most popular cartoon of its day.
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In 1933, when she was merely 5 years old, 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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