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Sylvester Owens 1933 - 1981

Sylvester Owens was born on November 4, 1933, and died at age 47 years old in September 1981. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Sylvester Owens.
Sylvester Owens
November 4, 1933
September 1981
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    1933

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    November 4, 1933
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  • 09/dd
    1981

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    September 1981
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    Sylvester Owens lived 23 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 47.
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In 1933, in the year that Sylvester Owens 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 1942, by the time he was only 9 years old, on February 19th, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. This authorized the Secretary of War to "prescribe certain areas as military zones." On March 21st, he signed Public Law 503 which was approved after an hour discussion in the Senate and 30 minutes in the House. The Law provided for enforcement of his Executive Order. This cleared the way for approximately 120,000 men, women, and children of Japanese ancestry to be evicted from the West Coast and to be held in concentration camps and other confinement sites across the country. In Hawaii, a few thousand were detained. German and Italian Americans in the U.S. were also confined.
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