{"id":19406,"date":"2017-03-24T17:48:40","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T22:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=19406"},"modified":"2017-03-24T17:48:40","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T22:48:40","slug":"eleanor-roosevelt-and-the-civil-rights-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/19406","title":{"rendered":"Eleanor Roosevelt and the Civil Rights Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimgibbonshistorian.com\/about.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Gibbons<\/a>, historian, will talk about &#8220;Eleanor Roosevelt and the Civil Rights Movement&#8221; on Sat., Mar. 25 at 12:30pm at the Irvin L. Young Memorial Library (Whitewater&#8217;s public library at 431 W. Center St.). This program is free and open to everyone.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/1600\/first-ladies\/eleanorroosevelt\" target=\"_blank\">Eleanor Roosevelt<\/a>, as spouse to four-term President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR), was the longest-serving First Lady of the United States. After FDR&#8217;s death in 1945 President Truman appointed her to the first U.S. delegation to the United Nations, where she chaired the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/EN\/HRBodies\/CHR\/Pages\/CommissionOnHumanRights.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Commission on Human Rights<\/a> and helped draft the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/universal-declaration-human-rights\/\" target=\"_blank\">Universal Declaration of Human Rights<\/a>. You can learn more about her at the web site of the <a href=\"https:\/\/fdrlibrary.org\/eleanor-roosevelt\" target=\"_blank\">FDR Presidential Library &#038; Museum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/erbook.jpg\" alt=\"cover of The Firebrand and the First Lady book\" class=\"alignright\" \/>If you&#8217;d like to learn more, Andersen Library can help! with books such as <em>Courage in a dangerous world: The political writings of Eleanor Roosevelt<\/em> (3rd-floor Main Collection, E807.1.R48 A3 1999 or <a href=\"https:\/\/libproxy.uww.edu:9443\/login?url=http:\/\/search.ebscohost.com\/login.aspx?direct=true&#038;AuthType=ip,uid&#038;db=nlebk&#038;AN=68559&#038;site=ehost-live&#038;scope=site\" target=\"_blank\">online<\/a> via EBSCOhost&#8217;s eBook Collection) and <em>The firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the struggle for social justice<\/em> (2nd-floor New Arrivals Island, E807.1.R48 B45 2016).<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019d like assistance with finding additional resources, please <a href=\"http:\/\/library.uww.edu\/get-help\/ask-a-librarian\" target=\"_blank\">ask a librarian<\/a> (choose chat or email, phone 262-472-1032, or visit the Reference Desk).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Andersen Library is a federal and Wisconsin depository library with federal and state government documents on a variety of current and relevant issues available to you in various formats (print, DVD\/CD-ROM, online). Check out <em>your<\/em> government at Andersen Library!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Gibbons, historian, will talk about &#8220;Eleanor Roosevelt and the Civil Rights Movement&#8221; on Sat., Mar. 25 at 12:30pm at the Irvin L. Young Memorial Library (Whitewater&#8217;s public library at 431 W. Center St.). 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