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Iona Abramson 1933 - 2001

Iona Abramson of Yonkers, Westchester County, NY was born on September 9, 1933, and died at age 67 years old on July 15, 2001.
Iona Abramson
Yonkers, Westchester County, NY 10710
September 9, 1933
July 15, 2001
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Iona Abramson's History: 1933 - 2001

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  • 09/9
    1933

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    September 9, 1933
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  • 07/15
    2001

    Death

    July 15, 2001
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    Iona Abramson lived 10 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 67.
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In 1933, in the year that Iona Abramson 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 just 10 years old, Iona 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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