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Melvin W Belk 1906 - 1988

Melvin W Belk of Houston, Harris County, TX was born on November 17, 1906, and died at age 81 years old on August 23, 1988.

Melvin W Belk

Houston, Harris County, TX 77071

November 17, 1906

August 23, 1988

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November 17, 1906

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1988

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August 23, 1988

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Melvin W Belk lived 9 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 81.

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In 1906, in the year that Melvin W Belk 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 1925, Melvin was 19 years old when in July, the Scopes Trial - often called the Scopes Monkey Trial - took place, prosecuting a substitute teacher for teaching evolution in school. Tennessee had enacted a law that said it was "unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school". William Jennings Bryan headed the prosecution and Clarence Darrow headed the defense. The teacher was found guilty and fined $100. An appeal to the Supreme Court of Tennessee upheld the law but overturned the guilty verdict.

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