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Eleanor Roosevelt Timeline 5
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| Lobbies for the Wagner Health Bill. Convenes a White House Conference on the participation of black women and children in Federal Welfare Programs. Co-launches the Southern Conference on Human Welfare. Condemns the segregation laws in Birmingham, Alabama. Campaigns against the poll tax. Writes Tolerance and This Troubled World.
Defies segregation laws in Birmingham, Alabama by sitting right between white and black attendees at the Southern Conference for Human Welfare. Addresses the NAACP National Convention. Arranges a huge concert by Marian Anderson at Lincoln Memorial. Aids anti-Hitler underground activist Karl Frank. Helps labor and socialist politicians who are stranded in Europe to immigrate in the US. Testifies in favor of the American Youth Congress before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, the Dies Committee. Voted one of the ten most powerful people in Washington. Writes Keepers of Democracy.
Founds the US Committee for the Care of European Children. Delivers the keynote speech Civil Liberties The Individual and the Community in Chicago. Lobbies for the Fair Employment Practices Commission. Supports the plan of Walter Reuther for producing 500 airplanes a aay during the war. Delivers an impromptu speech at the Democratic National Convention to support FDR for a third term in the Oval Office and Henry Wallace for Vice-President. Convenes the Hampton Institute Conference on the role of African-Americans in World War II. Writes Women in Politics, The Moral Basis of Democracy, Civil Liberties, and Fear Is the Enemy.
Serves as assistant director of civilian defense.
| Bibliography of Eleanor Roosevelt Timeline 5 Glendon, M (2002). World Made New. ER and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Youngs, J (2005). A Personal and Public Life. Library of American Biography Series.
Gerber, R (2008). Eleanor vs. Ike, A Novel.
Time For Kids (2005). First Lady of the World.
Weil, A (1989). Fighter for Social Justice. The Childhood of Famous Americans.
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