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Lorena Alice "Hick" Hickok (March 7, 1893 – May 1, 1968) was a pioneering American journalist and long-term romantic interest of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. [2] After an unhappy and unsettled childhood, Hickok found success as a reporter for the Minneapolis Tribune and the Associated Press (AP), becoming America's best-known female reporter ...
Apr 5, 2016 · Journalist Lorena Hickok, known as “Hick,” is best remembered today for her intimate, not-quite-definable friendship with Eleanor Roosevelt. For a few years in the early 1930s, the two women...
Lorena Hickok. Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site. Courtesy FDR Presidential Library. Quick Facts. Significance: American Journalist. Place of Birth: East Troy, WI. Date of Birth: March 7, 1893. Place of Death: Hyde Park, NY. Date of Death: May 1, 1968. Place of Burial: Rhinebeck, NY. Cemetery Name: Rhinebeck Cemetery.
Oct 11, 2012 · In the summer of 1928, Roosevelt met journalist Lorena Hickok, whom she would come to call Hick. The thirty-year relationship that ensued has remained the subject of much speculation, from the evening of FDR’s inauguration, when the First Lady was seen wearing a sapphire ring Hickok had given her, to the opening up of her private ...
One Third of A Nation: Lorena Hickok Reports from the Great Depression. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1981. Academic Building, Post Hall. Lorena Hickok, Eleanor Roosevelt's devoted friend, mentor, and pioneering journalist, was born March 7, 1893, in East Troy, Wisconsin.
Lorena Hickok stormed the male-dominated world of journalism, working for papers in the Midwest and New York before becoming one of the first women to have a byline with the Associated Press. In 1933, as chief investigator for the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, her detailed, insightful reports were read by President Franklin Roosevelt.
Oct 22, 2015 · (Richmond, CA) –On Saturday, November 7th at 11 AM, pioneer Lesbian Playwright and Actor, Terry Baum, will talk about Eleanor Roosevelt's love affair with hard-living, butch reporter, Lorena Hickok, their 30 year relationship and their humanitarian work.
