In this issue: Disability Film Club Screening – Warm Springs (2005); Annual Paul Sparrow Lecture with Basil Smikle, PhD; Author Eileen Bjorkman on Fly Girls Revolt; Eleanor Roosevelt's Birthday; A Look Inside Eleanor Roosevelt's Wallet; Air Forces Day and #TheArtOfWar; Eleanor Roosevelt’s Battle to End Lynching.
Free public event. Registration is required. CLICK HEREto register.
The stirring true story of FDR's battle with polio in 1921. In his search for a cure, he learns of a promising spa in Warm Springs, GA, only to find it dilapidated when he arrives. Presented in partnership with Taconic Resources for Independence.
ANNUAL PAUL SPARROW LECTURE
Foundations of a Movement: Black Americans, Civil Rights, and The Roosevelts
with Basil Smikle, PhD
Saturday, October 5
4pm ET
Henry A. Wallace Center
Free public event. Registration is required. CLICK HEREto register.
Basil Smikle, PhD examines the Roosevelt-era foundations of the Civil Rights Movement. Registered attendees can visit the Library's special exhibition, BLACK AMERICANS, CIVIL RIGHTS, AND THE ROOSEVELTS, free of charge before the program, from 2-4pm.
This year's Sparrow Lecture is held in partnership with the Poughkeepsie Public Library District's BIG READ program, recognizing 60 years of the Civil Rights Act.
COMING SOON
Roosevelt Reading Festival 2023 Streaming Premiere
The Fly Girls Revolt: The Story of the Women Who Kicked Open the Door to Fly in Combat
Author Eileen Bjorkman discusses The Fly Girls Revolt: it chronicles the actions of a band of women who overcame decades of discrimination and prevailed against bureaucrats, chauvinists, anti-feminists, and even other military women.
Ceremony & Birthday Cake
Eleanor Roosevelt's Birthday
Friday, October 11
3pm ET
Rose Garden & Wallace Center
Free public event. Registration is not required.
The Rose Garden Ceremony's guest speaker will be Donna Lackner-Horn, the Executive Director of the Eleanor Roosevelt Val-Kill Partnership. Wreaths will be presented by various community organizations. Birthday cake and beverages will be served after the event at the Henry A Wallace Visitor Center.
The things a person chooses to carry inside their wallet can offer clues about many different aspects of their life. Explore what the contents of Eleanor Roosevelt's wallet reveals about her with Supervisory Museum Curator Herman Eberhardt.
(Originally broadcast January 5, 2022; 15:15 minutes)
2.5 million Americans served in the Army Air Forces during WWII. Jes Wilhelm Schlaikjer, official Artist of the U.S. War Department, did the artwork for this poster.
The battle to end lynching is one of Eleanor Roosevelt’s most outspoken campaigns and one of her greatest disappointments. During the first half of the 20th Century, racial segregation and discrimination were the law in many states. The notorious Jim Crow laws in the South prevented African Americans from getting a decent education, from owning businesses and even from voting. Mrs. Roosevelt spoke out against all of these injustices.
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Mary McLeod Bethune and others at the opening of Midway Hall, one of two residence halls built by the Public Buildings Administration of the Federal Works Agency.
"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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