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Petra S Torrez 1933 - 1996

Petra S Torrez was born on February 20, 1933, and died at age 63 years old on May 13, 1996. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Petra S Torrez.

Petra S Torrez

February 20, 1933

May 13, 1996

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1933

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February 20, 1933

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1996

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May 13, 1996

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Petra S Torrez lived 4 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 63.

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In 1933, in the year that Petra S Torrez 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, at the age of just 10 years old, Petra was alive 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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