In this issue: Sara Delano Roosevelt; FDR's Cabinet within the Cabinet; the Dineh Tah’ Navajo Dancers and the Native New Deal; Greg Robinson on Japanese Incarceration; Alexander Jackson Davis Sketchbook #FDRtheCollector; Eleanor Tours the South Pacific.
Sara Delano Roosevelt is often portrayed as a stern, domineering and cheerless matriarch. FDR Education Specialist Jeffrey Urbin presents a more balanced portrait of the mother of our 32nd President.
Unlikely Heroes: Franklin Roosevelt, His Four Lieutenants, and the World They Made
Three men and one woman formed a kind of Cabinet within a Cabinet for President Roosevelt. Author Derek Leebaert examines the four figures – Harry Hopkins, Harold Ickes, Henry Wallace, and Frances Perkins – who played such a critical role in the nation's recovery. This is a free public event, but registration is required.
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Dineh Tah’ Navajo Cultural Program
Henry A. Wallace Center
Thursday, May 11
Presentation by Shawn Price
3pm ET
Tradition Keeper and Director of the Dineh Tah’ Navajo Dancers Shawn Price will deliver a presentation entitled, "FDR and the Native New Deal." Register»
Traditional Performance: by the Dineh Tah’ Navajo Dancers 6pm ET
The Dineh Tah’ Navajo Dancers will perform a traditional dance.
Black Americans, Civil Rights, and the Roosevelts, 1932-1962
Special exhibition opens: June 3, 2023
A new special exhibition developed in collaboration with a distinguished committee of scholars that centers on the historical voices of many Black community leaders, wartime service members, and ordinary citizens who engaged the Roosevelt administration directly and who pushed for progress. Within this context, the exhibit examines the political evolution of both Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt regarding racial justice.
FDR Library Director William Harris speaks with historian Greg Robinson, author of several books on Japanese American Incarceration, including: By Order of the President and A Tragedy of Democracy.
This undated sketchbook contains watercolors and pencil drawings by Alexander Jackson Davis. FDR purchased the sketchbook in February 1942, two months after Pearl Harbor. "Some of the watercolors are really lovely.”
Eleanor Roosevelt toured the South Pacific in August and September of 1943. She would fly 25,000 miles during WWII visiting the troops. (Video, 50 min.)
"Whatever our individual circumstances or opportunities, we are all in it, and our spirit is good... and do not let anyone tell you anything different." FDR, Oct 12, 1942, fireside chat.
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