In this issue: Halving Unemployment in the First Four Years; FDR and the Supreme Court; Equality and the Constitution; a Harpoon Owned by #FDRtheCollector; a 2:50am Call to the President.
By 1932, US unemployment and underemployment hit 25 percent. Four years later those numbers had been cut in half. FDR Library Education Specialist Jeffrey Urbin explores the creation, innovation, and expectations brought about through the FDR Administration's employment programs and policies.
The Court at War: FDR, His Justices, and the World They Made
The inside story of how one president forever altered the most powerful legal institution in the country, with consequences that endure today, a conversation with author Cliff Sloan and FDR Library director William Harris.
This is a free public event, but registration is required.
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.
St. John’s University law professor and Library Trustee John Q. Barrett and University of Pennsylvania Professor of Constitutional Law Kermit Roosevelt III discuss how the "standard story" of the origin and development of American values has helped -- or hindered -- the Nation's journey towards a more universal equality for all Americans.
FDR purchased this harpoon for $15 at a January 5-6, 1926, sale of the American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, NY. His interest in the artifact may be tied to his Delano ancestry, which included owners and captains of whaling ships
At 2:50 AM on September 1, 1939 President Franklin D. Roosevelt awakened when the phone beside his bed rang with grim news: the German Army was invading Poland.
"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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