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2 days ago · Sound recording of President John F. Kennedy’s conversation with Eleanor Roosevelt, former First Lady and Chairman of the Presidential Commission on the Status of Women.
2 days ago · Growing up alongside the Roosevelt family, Edith Carow began a romance with Theodore Roosevelt as a teenager and became a New York socialite. After a falling-out in young adulthood, they split up and did not rekindle their friendship until after Theodore was engaged to his first wife, Alice Hathaway Lee.
3 days ago · Meet 10 influential women union heroes who will inspire you to achieve inclusion, equality and better conditions, no matter where you work.
1 day ago · v. t. e. Second-wave feminism was a period of feminist activity that began in the early 1960s and lasted roughly two decades, ending with the feminist sex wars in the early 1980s [ 1] and being replaced by third-wave feminism in the early 1990s. [ 2] It occurred throughout the Western world and aimed to increase women's equality by building on ...
3 days ago · It took a chance connection with Eleanor Roosevelt and a special appeal to President Truman to get her papers. See Ross W. Halpin, “Chapter 3: Dr Gisella Perl,” in Jewish Doctors and the Holocaust (Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2019), pp. 54, 70–71; “Dr. Perl, Nazi Victims, Gets U.S. Residence,” The New York Times , March 13, 1948: p.
1 day ago · Franklin then began courting his childhood acquaintance and fifth cousin once removed, Eleanor Roosevelt, a niece of Theodore Roosevelt. [27] In 1903, Franklin proposed to Eleanor. Following resistance from his mother, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt were married on March 17, 1905.
4 days ago · The Engineer's Wife: A Novel. Emily Roebling refuses to live conventionally ― she knows who she is and what she wants, and she's determined to make change. But then her husband asks the unthinkable: give up her dreams to make his possible.
