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- 1944 | Third term as first lady. Becomes Assistant Director of the Office of Civilian Defense. Makes a tie in public speaking speeches between German Aryanism and American segregation policies. Arranges visas for French Jew refugees. Brother Hall dies. Visits the Tuskeegee Institute. Hosts the Pan American Coffee Bureau Series Current Events radio show. Toghter with Frances Cooke Macgregor Eleanor edits This Is America. Starts the monthly question and answer column If You Ask Me. Co-founds Freedom House to defend democracy. December 7 Addresses the nation on the radio the day Pearl Harbor is bombed by the Japanese. Tries to prevent internment of Japanese-Americans.
Meets allied troops in Britain and meets British leaders. Examine the employment of women in the war industries. Resigns from the Office of Civilian Defense.Becomes board member of the Wyltwyck School for boys. Lobbies to prevent sharecropper the execution of Odell Waller. Writes Race, Religion, and Prejudice.
Boost the US and allied troops morale during a visit to South Pacific islands, Australia and New Zealand. Urges for day care for children of women in the defense industry. Prevents more camp violence in the Gila River Arizona internment camp. Defends conscientious objectors who have served in non-combatant positions. Integrates the Sojourner Truth Housing Project in Detroit. Opposes the Smith-Connally Act, calling it damaging to labor in the midst of the UMW strike. Writes A Challenge to American Sportsmanship and Abolish Jim Crow.
Convenes the White House Conference on how women may share in post-war policy-making. Visits World war II troops in the Carribean and South America and meets with state and religious leaders. Writes How To Take Criticism and Henry Wallace's Democracy.
| Bibliography of Timeline of Eleanor Roosevelt 6 Roosevelt, E (2000). Autobiography Of ER. Quality Paperbacks Series.
Shulman, C and Beasley, H and M (2000). The ER Encyclopedia.
Jones, V G (2007). Courageous Spirit. Sterling Biographies.
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