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Fay Mays 1906 - 1987

Fay Mays of Austin, Travis County, Texas was born on March 17, 1906, and died at age 81 years old in August 1987.
Fay Mays
Austin, Travis County, Texas 78703
March 17, 1906
August 1987
Female
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    1906

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    March 17, 1906
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  • 08/dd
    1987

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    August 1987
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    Fay Mays lived 11 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 81.
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In 1906, in the year that Fay Mays was born, author Upton Sinclair exposed the public-health threat of the meat-packing industry in his book The Jungle. While his intent was to show the lives of exploited lives of immigrants in Chicago and other industrialized cities, most people were horrified by how the meat that ended up on their tables was handled. There was such an outcry that legislation was passed to regulate meat packing. Sinclair said " "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach."
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In 1922, she was 16 years old when on June 22, coal miners in Herrin Illinois, were on strike (coal miners had been on strike nationally since April 1). The striking miners were outraged at the strikebreakers (scabs) that the company had brought in and laid siege to the mine. Three union workers were killed when gunfire was exchanged. The next day, union miners killed 23 strikebreakers and mine guards. No one, on either side, ever faced jail time.
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