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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813297803321

Titolo

Dear Mrs. Roosevelt : letters from children of the Great Depression / / edited by Robert Cohen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2002

ISBN

979-88-908733-0-9

0-8078-6126-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CohenRobert <1955 May 21->

RooseveltEleanor <1884-1962.>

Disciplina

362.7097309043

973.917/092 B

Soggetti

Presidents' spouses - United States

Children - United States

Poor children - United States

Depressions - 1929 - United States

Children - United States - Social conditions - 20th century

Children's writings, American

United States History 1933-1945 Sources

United States Politics and government 1933-1945 Sources

United States Social conditions 1933-1945 Sources

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-260) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. Ill-Clothed, Ill-Housed, Ill-Fed; Chapter 2. Education; Chapter 3. Social Life; Chapter 4. Minorities; Epilogue: Responses to the Letters; Notes and Sources; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Impoverished young Americans had no greater champion during the Depression than Eleanor Roosevelt. As First Lady, Mrs. Roosevelt used her newspaper columns and radio broadcasts to crusade for expanded federal aid to poor children and teens. She was the most visible spokesperson for the National Youth Administration, the New Deal's central agency for aiding needy youths, and she was adamant in insisting that federal aid to young people be administered without



discrimination so that it reached blacks as well as whites, girls as well as boys.This activism made Mrs. Roosevelt a beloved fig