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

• Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (280 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.7097309043; 973.917/092 B
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: United States History 1933-1945 Sources; United States Politics and government 1933-1945 Sources; United States Social conditions 1933-1945 Sources
• Altri autori: CohenRobert <1955 May 21-> RooseveltEleanor <1884-1962.>
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Dear Mrs. Roosevelt
• ISBN: 979-88-908733-0-9; 0-8078-6126-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782832203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II