03170nam 2200709Ia 450 991081329780332120230207230122.0979-88-908733-0-90-8078-6126-X(CKB)1000000000746916(EBL)427119(OCoLC)476268436(SSID)ssj0000135502(PQKBManifestationID)11148997(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000135502(PQKBWorkID)10058535(PQKB)10968096(Au-PeEL)EBL427119(CaPaEBR)ebr10273422(MiAaPQ)EBC427119(EXLCZ)99100000000074691620020424d2002 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDear Mrs. Roosevelt letters from children of the Great Depression /edited by Robert CohenChapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20021 online resource (280 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8078-2747-9 0-8078-5413-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-260) and index.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; IndexImpoverished 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 figPresidents' spousesUnited StatesCorrespondenceChildrenUnited StatesCorrespondencePoor childrenUnited StatesCorrespondenceDepressions1929United StatesPersonal narrativesChildrenUnited StatesSocial conditions20th centurySourcesChildren's writings, AmericanUnited StatesHistory1933-1945SourcesUnited StatesPolitics and government1933-1945SourcesUnited StatesSocial conditions1933-1945SourcesPresidents' spousesChildrenPoor childrenDepressionsChildrenSocial conditionsChildren's writings, American.362.7097309043973.917/092 BCohen Robert1955 May 21-1603842Roosevelt Eleanor1884-1962.470808MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910813297803321Dear Mrs. Roosevelt4048001UNINA