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Josie R Waits 1933 - 2004

Josie R Waits of Belvidere, Boone County, IL was born on March 13, 1933, and died at age 71 years old on April 7, 2004.
Josie R Waits
Belvidere, Boone County, IL 61008
March 13, 1933
April 7, 2004
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  • 03/13
    1933

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    March 13, 1933
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  • 04/7
    2004

    Death

    April 7, 2004
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    Josie R Waits lived 1 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 71.
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In 1933, in the year that Josie R Waits was born, the day after being inaugurated, the new President, Franklin Roosevelt, declared a four-day bank holiday to stop people from withdrawing their money from shaky banks (the bank run). Within 5 days of his administration, the Emergency Banking Act was passed - reorganizing banks and closing insolvent ones. In his first 100 days, he asked Congress to repeal Prohibition (which they did), signed the Tennessee Valley Authority Act, signed legislation that paid commodity farmers to leave their fields fallow, thus ending surpluses and boosting prices, signed a bill that gave workers the right to unionize and bargain collectively for higher wages and better working conditions as well as suspending some antitrust laws and establishing a federally funded Public Works Administration, and won passage of 12 other major laws that helped the economy.
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In 1962, Josie was 29 years old when on October 1st, African-American James H. Meredith, escorted by federal marshals, registered at the University of Mississippi - becoming the first African-American student admitted to the segregated college. He had been inspired by President Kennedy's inaugural address to apply for admission.
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