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John W Yancy 1933 - 2001

John W Yancy of Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL was born on February 18, 1933, and died at age 68 years old on March 19, 2001.
John W Yancy
Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL 35209
February 18, 1933
March 19, 2001
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  • 02/18
    1933

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    February 18, 1933
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  • 03/19
    2001

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    March 19, 2001
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    John W Yancy lived 2 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 68.
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In 1933, in the year that John W Yancy 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, when he was just 14 years old, 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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