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Wilbert Bias 1920 - 1978

Wilbert Bias of New Orleans, Orleans County, Louisiana was born on August 23, 1920, and died at age 58 years old in August 1978.
Wilbert Bias
New Orleans, Orleans County, Louisiana 70115
August 23, 1920
August 1978
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  • 08/23
    1920

    Birthday

    August 23, 1920
    Birthdate
    Unknown
    Birthplace
  • Ethnicity & Family History

    Negro, Citizen
  • Nationality & Locations

    Orleans County, Louisiana United States
  • Early Life & Education

    Grammar School
  • Military Service

    Military serial#: 38311175 Enlisted: September 21, 1942 in New Orleans Louisiana Military branch: Branch Immaterial Warrant Officers, Usa Rank: Private, Selectees (enlisted Men) Terms of enlistment: Enlistment For The Duration Of The War Or Other Emergency, Plus Six Months, Subject To The Discretion Of The President Or Otherwise According To Law
  • Professional Career

    Kitchen Workers In Hotels, Restaurants, Railroads, Steamships, Etc, Nec
  • 08/dd
    1978

    Death

    August 1978
    Death date
    Unknown
    Cause of death
    Unknown
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In 1920, in the year that Wilbert Bias was born, on January 1, over 6000 people were arrested and put in prison because they were suspected of being communists. . Many had to be released in a few weeks and only 3 guns were found in their homes. The U.S. Department of Justice "red hunt" netted thousands of "radicals" and suspected "communists" and aliens were deported. But the "hunt" ended after Attorney General Palmer forecast a massive radical uprising on May Day and the day passed without incident.
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In 1933, at the age of only 13 years old, Wilbert was alive when the day after being inaugurated, the new President, Franklin Roosevelt, declared a four-day bank holiday to stop people from withdrawing their money from shaky banks (the bank run). Within 5 days of his administration, the Emergency Banking Act was passed - reorganizing banks and closing insolvent ones. In his first 100 days, he asked Congress to repeal Prohibition (which they did), signed the Tennessee Valley Authority Act, signed legislation that paid commodity farmers to leave their fields fallow, thus ending surpluses and boosting prices, signed a bill that gave workers the right to unionize and bargain collectively for higher wages and better working conditions as well as suspending some antitrust laws and establishing a federally funded Public Works Administration, and won passage of 12 other major laws that helped the economy.
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