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Wilma E Thornton 1914 - 2005

Wilma E Thornton of Winston Salem, Forsyth County, NC was born on March 9, 1914, and died at age 90 years old on January 16, 2005.

Wilma E Thornton

Winston Salem, Forsyth County, NC 27103

March 9, 1914

January 16, 2005

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In 1914, in the year that Wilma E Thornton was born, President Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation designating Mother's Day, the second Sunday in May, as a national holiday to honor mothers. Anna Jarvis had championed a Mother's Day for years but Congress had joked a few years earlier that then they would have to proclaim a "Mother-in-law's Day" as well. The President who championed a woman's right to vote also created a day in their honor.

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In 1938, at the age of 24 years old, Wilma 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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