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Otis Hampton 1933 - 2007

Otis Hampton of Memphis, Shelby County, TN was born on July 17, 1933, and died at age 73 years old on January 2, 2007. Otis Hampton was buried at West Tennessee Veterans Cemetery Section JJ Site 21674 4000 Forest Hill-irene Rd, in Memphis.
Otis Hampton
Memphis, Shelby County, TN 38114
July 17, 1933
January 2, 2007
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  • 07/17
    1933

    Birthday

    July 17, 1933
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  • Military Service

    Branch of service: Us Army Rank attained: SP3 Wars/Conflicts: Korea
  • 01/2
    2007

    Death

    January 2, 2007
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  • Gravesite & Burial

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    West Tennessee Veterans Cemetery Section JJ Site 21674 4000 Forest Hill-irene Rd, in Memphis, Tn 38125
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In 1933, in the year that Otis Hampton was born, 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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In 1943, Otis was only 10 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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