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Eleanor Roosevelt Timeline 4 - Timeline Help
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Eleanor Roosevelt Timeline 4
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- 1937 | Becomes member of the National Urban League and NAACP. Initiates a meeting between NAACP leader Walter White and FDR to discuss anti-lynching legislation. Tours Puerto Rican slum areas. Co-forms the National Youth Administration NYA. Facilitates the White House Conference on Camps for Unemployed Women. Campaigns for her friend NY Rep. Caroline O'Day. Writes The New Governmental Interest in Arts and Old Age Pensions.
Coordinates a meeting between the chair of the Democratic National Committee James Farley, head of the Womens' Division of the Democratic Party Molly Dewson, and FDR about the role of women in election campaigns. Starts publishing her syndicated column My Day. She will continue this event in Eleanor Roosevelt Timeline 4 till her death in 1962. Co-founds the National Youth Administration. Co-creates Federal Writers, Artists, Music and Theatre Projects. Tours the Ohio coal mine in Ohio. Writes In Defense of Curiosity and A Trip to Washington with Bobby and Betty.
Chairs the Washington Commission on Housing. Joins the American Newspaper Guild. Franklin Delano is re-elected for his second US presidential term. Helps Mary McLeod Bethune to become director of the Division of Negro Affairs at the NYA. Louis Howe dies Supports Southern Tenant Farmers Union earning the ire of the Liberty League which makes her the target of its anti-FDR campaign. Monitors Works Progress Association programs. The Val-Kill Cottage factory closes. Delivers the keynote speech The Negro and Social Change at the 25th anniversary celebration of the National Urban League. Writes Are We Overlooking the Pursuit of Happiness?
Supports the Spanish civil war in columns and speeches, and contributes to the Spanish Children's Fund and the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Writes her autobiography This Is My Story, and starts a question and answer column Dear Mrs. Roosevelt in Democratic Digest. Lobbies for the Wagner-Stegall Act on housing issues. Successfully lobbies to have the State Department admit anti-fascists Hanns and Lou Eisler. Lobbies for the WPA, NYA, and Federal One Programs. Refuses to speech in in Lancaster, Pennsylvania when the club owner excludes Jews. Endorses a Jewish refugee community in Palestine.
| Bibliography of Eleanor Roosevelt Timeline 4 Cook, B (2000). ER, Volume 2 1933 - 1938.
Black, A (1997). Casting Her Own Shadow.
Freedman, R (1997). A Life of Discovery. Clarion Nonfiction.
Harris, C M (2007). A Biography. Greenwood Biographies.
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