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Willie Mae Thornton 1929 - 2002

Willie Mae Thornton of Warren, Bradley County, AR was born on June 17, 1929, and died at age 72 years old on June 1, 2002.
Willie Mae Thornton
Warren, Bradley County, AR 71671
June 17, 1929
June 1, 2002
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  • 06/17
    1929

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    June 17, 1929
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  • 06/1
    2002

    Death

    June 1, 2002
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    Willie Mae Thornton lived 1 year longer than the average family member when died at the age of 72.
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In 1929, in the year that Willie Mae Thornton was born, the St. Valentine's Day Massacre happened on February 14th. In Chicago, seven men from the North Side Irish gang were gunned down by Al Capone's South Side Italian gang at the garage at 2122 North Clark Street. Al Capone was making a successful move to take over Chicago's organized crime. But the St. Valentine's Day massacre also resulted in a public outcry against all gangsters.
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In 1938, at the age of only 9 years old, Willie Mae was alive when on June 25th (a Saturday) the Fair Labor Standards Act was signed into law by President Roosevelt (along with 120 other bills). The Act banned oppressive child labor, set the minimum hourly wage at 25 cents, and established the maximum workweek at 44 hours. It faced a lot of opposition and in fighting for it, Roosevelt said "Do not let any calamity-howling executive with an income of $1,000 a day, ...tell you...that a wage of $11 a week is going to have a disastrous effect on all American industry."
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