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Marie Gentry 1941 - 2007

Marie Gentry of Chicago, Cook County, IL was born on December 31, 1941, and died at age 65 years old on April 16, 2007.
Marie Gentry
Chicago, Cook County, IL 60653
December 31, 1941
April 16, 2007
Female
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    1941

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    December 31, 1941
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  • 04/16
    2007

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    April 16, 2007
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    Marie Gentry lived 7 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 65.
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In 1941, in the year that Marie Gentry was born, on June 25th, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 8802, prohibiting racial discrimination in the defense industry. EO 8802 was the first federal action to prohibit employment discrimination - without prejudice as to "race, creed, color, or national origin" - in the U.S. Civil Rights groups had planned a march on Washington D.C. to protest for equal rights but with the signing of the Order, they canceled the March.
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In 1964, Marie was 23 years old when in June, three young civil rights workers - Andrew Goodman and Mickey Schwerner from New York City, and James Chaney from Meridian, Mississippi - were kidnapped and murdered in Mississippi. Working with "Freedom Summer", they were registering African-Americans to vote in the Southern states. Their bodies were found two months later. Although it was discovered that the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, the Neshoba County Sheriff's Office and the Philadelphia, Mississippi Police Department were involved, only 7 men were convicted and served less than six years.
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