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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cohen, Robert, 1955 May 21-

Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Presidents' spouses--United States--Correspondence.

Presidents' spouses.

Children--United States--Correspondence.

Children.

Poor children--United States--Correspondence.

Poor children.

Depressions--1929--United States--Personal narratives.

Depressions.

Children--United States--Social conditions--20th century--Sources.

Children's writings, American.

United States--History--1933-1945--Sources.

United States.

United States--Politics and government--1933-1945--Sources.

United States--Social conditions--1933-1945--Sources.

Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962--Correspondence.

Roosevelt, Eleanor.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-260) and index.

ISBN:

9798890873309

9780807861264

080786126X

OCLC:

476268436