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Oscar Shanks 1933 - 1992

Oscar Shanks of Lynchburg, Lynchburg City County, VA was born on January 8, 1933, and died at age 59 years old in March 1992.
Oscar Shanks
Lynchburg, Lynchburg City County, VA 24502
January 8, 1933
March 1992
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Oscar Shanks' History: 1933 - 1992

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    1933

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    January 8, 1933
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  • 03/dd
    1992

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    March 1992
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    Oscar Shanks lived 13 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 59.
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In 1933, in the year that Oscar Shanks 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 1964, he was 31 years old when in June, three young civil rights workers - Andrew Goodman and Mickey Schwerner from New York City, and James Chaney from Meridian, Mississippi - were kidnapped and murdered in Mississippi. Working with "Freedom Summer", they were registering African-Americans to vote in the Southern states. Their bodies were found two months later. Although it was discovered that the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, the Neshoba County Sheriff's Office and the Philadelphia, Mississippi Police Department were involved, only 7 men were convicted and served less than six years.
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