"We can't afford to have two kinds of citizens, We must have equal citizenship for anybody in our country."Įleanor visits a WPA nursery school in Iowa In 1958 the Ku Klux Klan put a bounty of $25,000 on her head because they didn't want her teaching people how to protest discrimination. She worked tirelessly for the advancement of African Americans in America. In a three month period she traveled 40,000 miles.įrom 1935 to 1962 she wrote a syndicated * newspaper column six days a week which appeared in many newspapers.
She urged FDR to appoint women to positions in the government. His slogan was "Happy days are here again".Īs First Lady she now had even more influence even though she didn't cherish the role. Then he ran for President in 1932 and won that office also. Her husband campaigned for governor of New York and won. She and the children moved into a home of her own Val Kill Cottage in Hyde Park. She became a powerful force in the Democratic Party. She enlisted the press to help further her causes. Louis Howe encouraged Eleanor and helped her. He went to live in Warm Springs, Georgia to receive treatment for the effects of the polio. Franklin became ill with the dreaded disease polio. Her husband Franklin Delano Roosevelt became a lawyer, then a senator, and next the Assistant Secretary of the Navy.Įleanor decided she had to make something of her life apart from her husband. It was not a happy situation, and her marriage with Franklin was turbulent.
She competed with Eleanor for the love of the children. She bought the house right next to theirs for herself and had connecting doors installed. When they married she bought a townhouse for them.
Sara Roosevelt, Eleanor's mother-in-law was always "in the picture".
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