April 12: Franklin Delano Roosevelt dies while convalescing in Warm Springs, Georgia. September 2: Japan surrenders to the Allies, World War II ends. Eleanor is elected as head of the United ...
And that was one of the great, great victories scored during World War II for us. Brown v. Board of Education, in the 50s, wasn't implemented. She worked hard to implement it? Eleanor Roosevelt ...
In 1917 as the US entered World War I, women across America saw a change in their daily lives. For Eleanor Roosevelt, it meant she was able to return to volunteer work for the first time since she ...
All four of Eleanor Roosevelt’s sons are ... Chunky Captain Elliott Roosevelt of the Air Corps was in Texas when war came, studying navigation at Kelly Field. Last week he was ordered to join ...
Even Eleanor Roosevelt didn’t know who was coming ... It was December 1941. World War II had drained the Christmas spirit and the US was in shock, just weeks after Japan’s strike on Pearl ...
The pseudonymous Yardley debuts with an exciting historical series launch featuring former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt. In 1951, Susan Meyer is found dead in a train car bathroom in Washington ...
During his last year at Harvard, he became engaged to Theodore Roosevelt’s niece, Eleanor Roosevelt, who was also his distant ... Facing one of the greatest challenges in American history—world ...
In small places, close to home – so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world ... pictured with James Roosevelt (far right). Benjamin Ferencz, former Nuremberg War Crimes ...