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The blog of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum Forward with Roosevelt Menu About Categories Black Women in the Wartime Struggle March 29, 2024 March 26, 2024 by fdrlibrary , posted in Special Exhibition Highlights , Uncategorized Members of an NAACP Planning Committee at a recruitment event. Photograph: Library of Congress Black women were on the frontlines of civil rights activism during the war years. The grassroots organizing work of young leaders like Rosa Parks, Juanita Jackson, and Ella Baker helped fuel a dramatic increase in NAACP membership and branch activism. Union … Continue reading Black Women in the Wartime Struggle Tagged Civil Rights , Eleanor Roosevelt , Ella Baker , exhibits , Franklin D. Roosevelt , Juanita Jackson , Pauli Murray , Rosa Parks , women’s history , World War II The First Lady of the Struggle March 18, 2024 March 18, 2024 by fdrlibrary , posted in Uncategorized Mary McLeod Bethune acted as leader of the Black Cabinet. Bethune was a friend and confidante of Eleanor Roosevelt and FDR held her in high regard. She used her unique connection to the Roosevelts to bring race-related issues directly to the President. Photograph: Library of Congress Much of the success of the Black Cabinet was … Continue reading The First Lady of the Struggle Tagged Civil Rights , Eleanor Roosevelt , ER , exhibits , FDR , Franklin D. Roosevelt , Mary McLeod Bethune Irvin and Elizabeth McDuffie February 27, 2024 February 27, 2024 by fdrlibrary , posted in Uncategorized Throughout the nation today, colored men and women are playing the part in the government under President Roosevelt’s New Deal that we have awaited . . . these seventy years which have passed since President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.” —Elizabeth McDuffie, Campaign Speech, St. Louis, Missouri, 1936 Elizabeth and Irvin McDuffie, two Black … Continue reading Irvin and Elizabeth McDuffie Tagged Civil Rights , Eleanor Roosevelt , Elizabeth McDuffie , ER , FDR , Franklin D. Roosevelt , Irvin McDuffie , White House Remembering President Warren G. Harding (1865-1923) August 2, 2023 August 2, 2023 by fdrlibrary , posted in Uncategorized President Warren G. Harding’s body lying in state in the East Room of the White House. Image from the Library of Congress https://lccn.loc.gov/2006683674 by Kevin Thomas, Archives Technician August 2, 2023, marks the 100th Anniversary of the sudden death of Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States. The news, no doubt, shocked Americans, … Continue reading Remembering President Warren G. Harding (1865-1923) Tagged FDR , Franklin D. Roosevelt , POTUS , Warren G. Harding The Coronation of King George VI, May 12, 1937 May 5, 2023 by wharris , posted in Uncategorized by William A. Harris, Director King George VI (MO 1975.90a) and his wife Queen Elizabeth (MO 1975.90b) by Frank Ernest Beresford, 1937, FDR Library. Saturday, May 6th, marks the coronation of King Charles III in London. In 1937, FDR was invited to the crowning of King George VI, the current king’s grandfather, the main event in … Continue reading The Coronation of King George VI, May 12, 1937 Special Exhibition Highlight: Walter White April 21, 2023 April 21, 2023 by fdrlibrary , posted in Special Exhibition Highlights Walter White was a Black American civil rights leader and executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) from 1929 to 1955. Born into a prominent family in Atlanta, Georgia in 1893, he was a graduate of Atlanta University. White joined the NAACP in 1918 and gained prominence for his … Continue reading Special Exhibition Highlight: Walter White Tagged exhibits , Walter White Special Exhibition Highlight: Marian Anderson February 27, 2023 February 28, 2023 by fdrlibrary , posted in Special Exhibition Highlights If you have a purpose in which you can believe, there’s no end to the amount of things you can accomplish.” Marian Anderson by Kirsten S. Carter, Supervisory Archivist Born February 27, 1897, Marian Anderson first sang publicly at age six with the Union Baptist Church choir in her home city of Philadelphia. Backed by … Continue reading Special Exhibition Highlight: Marian Anderson Tagged Civil Rights , Marian Anderson , Special Exhibition The Year Of Two Thanksgivings November 14, 2022 January 5, 2023 by fdrlibrary , posted in Uncategorized On Thanksgiving Day, November 23, 1939, Franklin Roosevelt carved the turkey at the annual Thanksgiving Dinner at Warm Springs, Georgia, and wished all Americans across the country a Happy Thanksgiving. Unfortunately, his greeting went unanswered in some states; many Americans were not observing Thanksgiving on the same day as the President. Instead, they were waiting … Continue reading The Year Of Two Thanksgivings Tagged FDR , Franklin D. Roosevelt , Thanksgiving Queen Elizabeth II September 8, 2022 January 5, 2023 by fdrlibrary , posted in Found in the Archives I have the greatest respect for this young woman who must combine the responsibilities of a Queen with the requirements and emotional stresses of a young mother. I think, too, the British people are fortunate in having the royal family to hold them together. Everywhere you go, you see that the Queen, Prince Philip, the … Continue reading Queen Elizabeth II Tagged Eleanor Roosevelt , Queen Elizabeth II , Royal Family Roosevelt, Commander in Chief September 7, 2022 January 5, 2023 by fdrlibrary , posted in Found in the Archives Franklin D. Roosevelt with Winston Churchill at the Casablanca Conference, Casablanca, Morocco. January 18, 1943. NPx 48-22:186 Cooperation, n. 1. Act of cooperating; joint operation; concurrent effort or labor. - Webster’s New International Dictionary (Second Ed.) By Kevin Thomas, Archives Technician Since America’s entry into the war in 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt had recognized … Continue reading Roosevelt, Commander in Chief Tagged FDR , Franklin D. 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