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 ...

March 17: Eleanor marries Franklin D. Roosevelt in New York. 1906 May 3: Eleanor gives birth to her first child, Anna. ... President Franklin D. Roosevelt implements the New Deal.

During the New Deal, some white southerners believed that Eleanor Roosevelt was a bellwether for the administration’s domestic policies, particularly those having to do with race. As such, she ...

From Nazis to the New Deal. Roosevelt Borough, ... That included Eleanor Roosevelt, who came by after the dedication of FDR’s bust, which was sculpted by Ben Shahn’s son Jonathan.

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.

Feminist historian Blanche Wiesen Cook published the first volume of her biography of Roosevelt in 1992. Critic Maureen Corrigan says the newly released final volume is exhausting and exhilarating.

Roosevelt established the New Deal program that would create jobs around the country and Social Security. Eleanor continued to promote civil rights and used her position as first lady to help poor ...