In this issue: A Government that Lives in the Spirit of Charity; Special Exhibit – Black Americans, Civil Rights, and the Roosevelts; Fall Forum: "Franklin and Eleanor, and the Power of Words: A Conversation with Paul Sparrow"; Scottie Dog Cigarette Box #FDRtheCollector; Eleanor Roosevelt Writes About Her Birthday.
This session explores the Roosevelt Administration's efforts to create a government that would foster security, safety and stability in the lives of ordinary Americans during the Great Depression and on up to today.
We are proud to announce that our current special exhibition BLACK AMERICANS, CIVIL RIGHTS, AND THE ROOSEVELTS has received a 2023 Award for Excellence from the Greater Hudson Heritage Network!
A 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.
Last year's inaugural Paul M. Sparrow Lecture exploring Franklin and Eleanor's dedication to the power of words and and how they brought hope to a desperate world, comfort to those suffering poverty and discrimination, and vision of a better world.
This cigarette box was presented to FDR in December 1944 by Siegfried Heyman of New York City. The package of Camel cigarettes stored in this box was left by FDR on his last visit to his private study in March 1945
From December 1935 until her death in 1962 Eleanor Roosevelt chronicled her activities in a syndicated column called My Day. The column was her public diary in which she wrote about the things she was experiencing each day. She used her columns as a pedagogical device, a political tool, and a medium for communicating the liberal ethic to her readers.
"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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