She created a stir when she helped to move Marian Anderson’s performance at the Lincoln Memorial after the black singer was prohibited from performing at Constitution Hall because of her race.
The concerned citizens should prepare brief statements for the committee on whether they think the FDR memorial should show Roosevelt in a wheelchair and why (or why not). After hearing the ...
This article is mainly based on material found in the Harvard archives, in the Roosevelt Library at Hyde Park, and in letters from the surviving editors who served with FDR on the CRIMSON.
The Harris campaign is mobilizing the rhetoric of FDR’s Four Freedoms. In the midst of the Great Depression at home and World War II abroad, FDR laid out Four Freedoms in his State of the Union ...