In this issue: FDR's "Economic Bill of Rights" Speech; French Jewish children and their escape from the Nazis; Here Lived a film by Jane Wells; Anniversary Franklin D. Roosevelt's Birthday; FDR's 4 Inaugurals; Fight for Freedom! #FDRtheCollector; Four Presidential Inaugurations; January 16, 1941 and the 99th.
On the occasion of the 80th Anniversary of FDR's 1944 State of the Union Address – also known as the "Second Bill of Rights" or "Economic Bill of Rights" Speech –the Roosevelt Library will host a virtual conversation with American historian and Professor Emeritus of Democracy at the University of Wisconsin Green Bay Harvey Kaye on the significance of the speech.
Harvey J. Kaye is Professor Emeritus of Democracy and Justice at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, a co-founder of the Wisconsin Labor History Society, a member of the Retirees’ Council of the Wisconsin Federation of Teacher, and a co-owner of the Green Bay Packers.
An award-winning historian and political writer, Kaye has published 18 books — the most recent include THE FIGHT FOR THE FOUR FREEDOMS: WHAT MADE FDR AND THE GREATEST GENERATION TRULY GREAT and FDR ON DEMOCRACY.
(Originally Broadcast on Apr 20, 2020) Former FDR Library Director Paul Sparrow and former Morgenthau Scholar-in-Residence Abby Gondak discuss the story of French Jewish children and their escape from the Nazis. This project uses the resources of the Morgenthau Holocaust Collections Project. (Video, 7:03 minutes)
International Holocaust Remembrance Day Film Screening:
On Friday, January 26, 2024 at 2:00 p.m., the Roosevelt Library and the Jewish Federation of Dutchess County present anInternational Holocaust Remembrance Day Film Screening of HERE LIVED, a film by Jane Wells.
Free public event. Registration is required. CLICK HEREto register.
Ceremony & Birthday Cake:
Franklin D. Roosevelt's Birthday
Tuesday, Jan 30
3pm ET
Rose Garden & Wallace Center
On Tuesday, January 30, 2023 at 3:00 p.m., the National Park Service will hold a Rose Garden Ceremony to commemorate Franklin Roosevelt's Birthday. Following the ceremony, the FDR Presidential Library will invite attendees to return to the Wallace Center for birthday cake and refreshments. Free public event.
January 20 is Inauguration Day – marking the occasion by taking a look back at FDR's unprecedented four presidential inaugurals. Watch Supervisory Curator Herman Eberhardt as he explores historic artifacts, documents, photographs, and film from the inaugural ceremonies of 1933, 1937, 1941, and 1945.
(Originally broadcast Jan 20, 2021; 27:38 minutes)
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.
Our first featured #TheArtOfWar poster is John Falter's 1942 "Fight for Freedom!" emphasizing "This World Cannot Exist Half Slave and Half Free" a paraphrased quote from Lincoln's “House Divided” speech.
Franklin D. Roosevelt was the only American President elected and inaugurated four times. Here is a gallery of historical inauguration materials housed at the FDR Presidential Library & Museum.
On January 16th, 1941, the War Department announced the creation of the 99th Pursuit Squadron. This was to be an all Black flying unit trained at the Tuskegee Institute founded in Tuskegee, Alabama, by Booker T. Washington in 1881. Charles A. Anderson, a self-taught African American pilot had established a civilian pilot training program at the Institute in 1939.
"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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