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Willie J Thornton 1917 - 2009

Willie J Thornton of Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL was born on May 6, 1917, and died at age 92 years old on September 19, 2009.

Willie J Thornton
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Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL 35214
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May 6, 1917
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  • 05/6
    1917

    Birthday

    May 6, 1917
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  • Ethnicity & Family History

    Negro, Citizen

  • Nationality & Locations

    Jefferson County, Alabama United States

  • Early Life & Education

    Grammar School

  • Military Service

    Military serial#: 34166950 Enlisted: April 4, 1942 in Ft Mcclellan Alabama 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

    Semiskilled Furnacemen, Smelters, And Pourers
  • 09/19
    2009

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    September 19, 2009
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In 1917, in the year that Willie J Thornton was born, on July 28, between ten and fifteen thousand blacks silently walked down New York City's Fifth Avenue to protest racial discrimination and violence. Lynchings in Waco Texas and hundreds of African-Americans killed in East St. Louis Illinois had sparked the protest. Picket signs said "Mother, do lynchers go to heaven?" "Mr. President, why not make America safe for democracy?" "Thou shalt not kill." "Pray for the Lady Macbeth's of East St. Louis" and "Give us a chance to live."
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In 1933, at the age of 16 years old, Willie 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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