In this issue: Author Tom Levitt on Frances Perkins; Eleanor Roosevelt Honored in London; Eleanor, First Lady Of The World Film Screening; IDA: A Sword Among Lions, a Conversation with Paula J. Giddings; the Hudson Valley History Reading Festival; Seneca Falls to 19th Ammendment; Memory and the Nation: Day of Remembrance 2024; Hit The Beach #TheArtOfWar; Honoring the Achievements of FDR’s Secretary of Labor.
Author Tom Levitt discusses the biography The Courage to Meddle. Frances Perkins, the most influential woman in global politics in the first half of the 20th century – and yet virtually unknown, especially outside her native USA.
Tom Levitt is a former member of the British Parliament who writes about responsible and sustainable business ('The Company Citizen').
Women's History Month Film Screening
Eleanor, First Lady Of The World
with Jean Stapleton
Monday, March 18
2pm ET
Henry A. Wallace Center
Jean Stapleton stars as Eleanor Roosevelt in this feature that explores the years after FDR's death, when Mrs. Roosevelt became an influential public figure in her own right.
Free public event. Registration is required. CLICK HEREto register.
Author Paula J. Giddings examines Ida B. Wells, a crusading journalist and pioneer in the fights for women’s suffrage and against segregation and lynchings. A conversation with FDR Library Director William Harris.
Free public event. Registration is required. CLICK HEREto register.
WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH
The Putney Society
Blue Plaque commemorating Eleanor Roosevelt
Saturday, March 16
10:30am GMT
Southfields Library
London, UK
A short ceremony commemorating Eleanor Roosevelt’s formative years at Allenswood will be held outside the Southfields Library in London on March 16, 2024. MP Fleur Anderson will unveil a plaque dedicated to Mrs. Roosevelt. It will be followed by an informal talk by Robin Gerber, an author and expert on Eleanor’s early years. This is a free public event.
Former FDR Library Director Paul Sparrow talks with Stephanie Freese, of Women's Rights National Historic Park, and Susan Philpott, of the Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument, about the struggle for Women's Suffrage from the convention at Seneca Falls to the passage of the 19th Amendment.
(Originally broadcast March 3, 2021; 38:37 minutes)
World War II profoundly affected the lives of American women as the nation mobilized for national defense. Between 1941 and 1944, the number of working women rose from 14.6 million to 19.4 million. Married women accounted for over two-thirds of this increase.
To commemorate Women’s History Month, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library honors Frances Perkins, FDR’s Secretary of Labor and the first woman appointed to a presidential cabinet.
Frances Perkins at work for the Factory Investigation Commission, circa 1911. Photo from the Frances Perkins Papers, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University.
"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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