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Roy Matthews 1938 - 1977

Roy Matthews of Odessa, Ector County, Texas was born on October 21, 1938, and died at age 39 years old in December 1977.
Roy Matthews
Odessa, Ector County, Texas 79763
October 21, 1938
December 1977
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Roy Matthews' History: 1938 - 1977

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  • 10/21
    1938

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    October 21, 1938
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  • 12/dd
    1977

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    December 1977
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    Roy Matthews lived 33 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 39.
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In 1938, in the year that Roy Matthews was born, on June 25th (a Saturday) the Fair Labor Standards Act was signed into law by President Roosevelt (along with 120 other bills). The Act banned oppressive child labor, set the minimum hourly wage at 25 cents, and established the maximum workweek at 44 hours. It faced a lot of opposition and in fighting for it, Roosevelt said "Do not let any calamity-howling executive with an income of $1,000 a day, ...tell you...that a wage of $11 a week is going to have a disastrous effect on all American industry."
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In 1943, at the age of merely 5 years old, Roy 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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