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Lester Purvis Richards 1920 - 2011

Lester Purvis Richards of Houston, Harris County, Texas was born on September 1, 1920, and died at age 90 years old on March 30, 2011.

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In 1920, in the year that Lester Purvis Richards was born, on January 1, over 6000 people were arrested and put in prison because they were suspected of being communists. . Many had to be released in a few weeks and only 3 guns were found in their homes. The U.S. Department of Justice "red hunt" netted thousands of "radicals" and suspected "communists" and aliens were deported. But the "hunt" ended after Attorney General Palmer forecast a massive radical uprising on May Day and the day passed without incident.
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In 1933, when he was just 13 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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Richards, Ella (Jan 17, 1908 - Oct 30, 1990) Richards, Clifton (Oct 20, 1912 - Nov 16, 1998) Richards, Ralph (Dec 11, 1904 - Dec 1977) Richards, James (Apr 12, 1897 - Sep 1969) Richards, Edna (Nov 8, 1883 - Dec 15, 1968) Richards, Edith (Feb 26, 1893 - Jul 1971) Richards, Jackson (Oct 6, 1917 - Mar 1981) Richards, Ernest (Nov 14, 1891 - Apr 1972) Richards, Lauris (Mar 26, 1908 - Apr 1979) Richards, Toussaint (Sep 21, 1898 - Aug 14, 1996)
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