![]() ![]() Pictures of her with African Americans, even with small black children, caused a tremendous uproar, for which she was vilified. ![]() When she toured the South she was told that audiences had to be segregated, so when she was not the featured speaker she would place her chair in between the black and white audiences. ![]() Eleanor brought several African Americans to the White House including women who were in prison prison reform being another cause that Eleanor was involved in. This was at a time when Washington DC itself was still under Jim Crow. – most particularly in the Southern States. Her most fervent cause was that of the plight of African Americans through-out the U.S. She inserted herself into a multitude of causes that she was passionate about. She was progressive and left-leaning – espousing a multitude of causes – from women’s rights to the growing plight of refugees (mostly Jewish people fleeing from the reprehensible rule of Hitler’s Germany). ![]() As described in this book she is constantly on the move – giving speeches, writing articles and books, and meeting with diverse groups of people. These are definitely key years in the history of the United States with Franklin Roosevelt attempting to overcome the effects of the Depression – and, throughout the world, with Nazism and Fascism on the rise in Germany, Italy and Japan.Įleanor Roosevelt was at the forefront of it all. This second volume covers a much shorter time period – from 1933 to 1938. ![]()
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