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Jakey L Cook 1933 - 2008

Jakey L Cook of Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL was born on August 15, 1933, and died at age 75 years old on December 21, 2008.
Jakey L Cook
Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL 35214
August 15, 1933
December 21, 2008
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  • 08/15
    1933

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    August 15, 1933
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  • 12/21
    2008

    Death

    December 21, 2008
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    Jakey L Cook 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 Jakey L Cook 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 1941, by the time this person was just 8 years old, on June 25th, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 8802, prohibiting racial discrimination in the defense industry. EO 8802 was the first federal action to prohibit employment discrimination - without prejudice as to "race, creed, color, or national origin" - in the U.S. Civil Rights groups had planned a march on Washington D.C. to protest for equal rights but with the signing of the Order, they canceled the March.
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