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Get a first look at photos below! Starring Tony Award-Winner Trezana Beverley (Broadway: For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf ) as Eleanor Roosevelt and Drama ...
Portrait of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and wife Eleanor Roosevelt seated in garden, circa 1930s. Getty Images “The chief problem was that none of her doctors knew what was causing her rare ...
Photos show inaugural gowns first ladies have worn over the last 100 years. ... Eleanor Roosevelt's dress and matching wrap were made of velvet, The New York Times reported.
In 1945, Roosevelt’s successor, President Harry S. Truman, appointed Eleanor a delegate to the United Nations, where she served as the first chairperson of the United Nations Commission on Human ...
In her new book, “The First Lady of World War II,” author Shannon McKenna Schmidt details Eleanor Roosevelt’s daring, top-secret, five-week trip to the South Pacific war zone.
In one letter quoted in the book, dated March 5, 1933, the day after her husband’s first inauguration, Roosevelt writes: “Hick my dearest, I cannot go to bed to-night without a word to you.
Eleanor Roosevelt, who served as first lady for 12 years, died on this day in history, Nov. 7, 1962, after carving out her own legacy as one of the most influential women in American history.
In addition, there will be live music and free photos with Santa from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Children can make holiday cards for sailors on the USS Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt beginning at noon.