During the Great Depression, African Americans were disproportionately affected by unemployment: they were the first fired and the last hired. After Roosevelt was elected, he began to institute ...

Hissing Cousins Eleanor Roosevelt's Worst Enemy Was Her Cousin. While FDR was fighting for the New Deal, his wife waged her own family battle: The First Lady, a liberal icon, had to contend with her ...

Eleanor Roosevelt had become First Lady just one month prior as her husband Franklin Delano Roosevelt assumed the presidency of the United States. ... including expanded New Deal programs.

A new exhibition at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library explores the president’s “mixed” record on civil rights — and the charged debate over racism in the New Deal.

His allies included his wife, the outspoken Eleanor Roosevelt, and her friends, a network of social reformers bred in the settlement house and labor reform movements of the previous decade. President ...