Dear Mrs. Roosevelt Letters from Children of the Great Depression

Name: Dear Mrs. Roosevelt Letters from Children of the Great Depression
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ISBN: 9780807854136

ISBN-10: 0807854131

ISBN-13: 9780807854136

Edition: 2002

Authors: Robert Cohen

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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 the needy young, 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 figure among poor teens and children, who between 1933 and 1941 wrote her thousands of letters describing…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 10/28/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.64" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English