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John R Forrester 1938 - 2011

John R Forrester of Glade Spring, Washington County, VA was born on August 16, 1938, and died at age 72 years old on April 11, 2011.
John R Forrester
Glade Spring, Washington County, VA 24340
August 16, 1938
April 11, 2011
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    2011

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    April 11, 2011
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    John R Forrester lived 1 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 72.
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In 1938, in the year that John R Forrester was born, on June 25th (a Saturday) the Fair Labor Standards Act was signed into law by President Roosevelt (along with 120 other bills). The Act banned oppressive child labor, set the minimum hourly wage at 25 cents, and established the maximum workweek at 44 hours. It faced a lot of opposition and in fighting for it, Roosevelt said "Do not let any calamity-howling executive with an income of $1,000 a day, ...tell you...that a wage of $11 a week is going to have a disastrous effect on all American industry."
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In 1943, he was only 5 years old when on June 20th through June 22nd, the Detroit Race Riot erupted at Belle Isle Park. The rioting spread throughout the city (made worse by false rumors of attacks on blacks and whites) and resulted in the deployment of 6,000 Federal troops. 34 people were killed, (25 of them black) - mostly by white police or National Guardsmen, 433 were wounded (75 percent of them black) and an estimated $2 million of property was destroyed. The same summer, there were riots in Beaumont, Texas and Harlem, New York.
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