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Willis B Wright 1933 - 2008

Willis B Wright of Ruston, Lincoln County, LA was born on December 24, 1933, and died at age 74 years old on January 14, 2008.
Willis B Wright
Ruston, Lincoln County, LA 71270
December 24, 1933
January 14, 2008
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  • 12/24
    1933

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    December 24, 1933
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  • 01/14
    2008

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    January 14, 2008
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    Willis B Wright lived 2 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 74.
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In 1933, in the year that Willis B Wright was born, 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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In 1947, Willis was merely 14 years old when on April 15th, Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers, playing first base. He was the first black man to play in the Major Leagues. Since the 1880's, professional baseball had been segregated and blacks played in the "Negro leagues". He went on to play for 10 years.
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