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Betty J Gibbs 1933 - 2008

Betty J Gibbs of Palmyra, Macoupin County, IL was born on May 23, 1933, and died at age 75 years old on September 13, 2008.
Betty J Gibbs
Palmyra, Macoupin County, IL 62674
May 23, 1933
September 13, 2008
Female
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Betty J Gibbs' History: 1933 - 2008

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  • 05/23
    1933

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    May 23, 1933
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  • 09/13
    2008

    Death

    September 13, 2008
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    Betty J Gibbs lived 3 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 75.
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In 1933, in the year that Betty J Gibbs was born, Frances Perkins became the first woman to hold a cabinet-level position, appointed by President Roosevelt to serve as Secretary of Labor. She told him that her priorities would be a 40-hour work week, a minimum wage, unemployment compensation, worker’s compensation, abolition of child labor, direct federal aid to the states for unemployment relief, Social Security, a revitalized federal employment service, and universal health insurance. President Roosevelt approved of all of them and most them were implemented during his terms as President. She served until his death in 1945.
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In 1943, at the age of merely 10 years old, Betty was alive when on June 20th through June 22nd, the Detroit Race Riot erupted at Belle Isle Park. The rioting spread throughout the city (made worse by false rumors of attacks on blacks and whites) and resulted in the deployment of 6,000 Federal troops. 34 people were killed, (25 of them black) - mostly by white police or National Guardsmen, 433 were wounded (75 percent of them black) and an estimated $2 million of property was destroyed. The same summer, there were riots in Beaumont, Texas and Harlem, New York.
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