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Cover Page i THE ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ENCYCLOPEDIA Page ii Eleanor Roosevelt looks solemnly at the camera at the age of fourteen before she goes to Allenswood, a boarding school near London. Courtesy of Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Page iii THE ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ENCYCLOPEDIA Edited by Maurine H. Beasley, Holly C. Shulman, and Henry R. Beasley Foreword by Blanche Wiesen Cook Introduction by James MacGregor Burns GREENWOOD PRESS Westport, Connecticut • London Page iv Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data The Eleanor Roosevelt encyclopedia / edited by Maurine H. Beasley, Holly C. Shulman, and Henry R. Beasley ; foreword by Blanche Wiesen Cook ; introduction by James MacGregor Burns. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0–313–30181–6 (alk. paper) 1. Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884–1962—Encyclopedias. 2. Presidents’ spouses—United States—Biography—Encyclopedias. 3. United States—Politics and government—1933–1945—Encyclopedias. 4. United States—Politics and government—1945–1989—Encyclopedias. I. Beasley, Maurine Hoffman. II. Shulman, Holly Cowan. III. Beasley, Henry R., 1929– E807.1.R4 2001 973.917'092—dc00 00–023530 [B21; aa05 02–11] British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data is available. Copyright © 2001 by Maurine H. Beasley, Holly C. Shulman, and Henry R. Beasley All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, by any process or technique, without the express written consent of the publisher. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 00–023530 ISBN: 0313301816 First published in 2001 Greenwood Press, 88 Post Road West, Westport, CT 06881 An imprint of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. www.greenwood.com Printed in the United States of America The paper used in this book complies with the Permanent Paper Standard issued by the National Information Standards Organization (Z39.48–1984). 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Page v We Dedicate This Volume to Our Mothers: THELMA McELVEY BEASLEY POLLY SPIEGEL COWAN MAURINE HIERONYMUS HOFFMAN Page vi This page intentionally left blank. Page vii CONTENTS Illustrations and Charts ix Foreword by Blanche Wiesen Cook xi Preface xv Introduction: Eleanor Roosevelt: Learning, Teaching, Doing by James MacGregor Burns xix Chronology of Eleanor Roosevelt’s Life and Career xxiii WellKnown Quotations by Eleanor Roosevelt xxvii The Encyclopedia 1 Index 599 Editors 618 Contributors 619 Page viii This page intentionally left blank. Page ix ILLUSTRATIONS AND CHARTS Eleanor Roosevelt with Elinor Morgenthau and Jane Addams 2 Eleanor Roosevelt on a World War II tour of Great Britain 27 Chart of honorary degrees conferred upon Eleanor Roosevelt 42 Eleanor Roosevelt and Mary McLeod Bethune at a residence for African American women workers 48 Eleanor Roosevelt and women reporters in the Caribbean 63 Eleanor Roosevelt as a young mother with four of her children 76 Eleanor Roosevelt and Madame Chiang Kaishek 82 Eleanor Roosevelt with her father and brothers 84 Eleanor Roosevelt with members of the Howard University Honor Guard 90 Eleanor Roosevelt in her gown for Franklin D. Roosevelt’s second inauguration 97 Eleanor Roosevelt with Nancy Cook, Caroline O’Day, and Marion Dickerman 106 Eleanor Roosevelt at the Democratic National Convention in 1940 128 Eleanor Roosevelt with two grandchildren and Fala 167 Eleanor Roosevelt with Bess Truman and Lady Bird Johnson 185 Chart of Roosevelt family lineage 207 Chart of Eleanor Roosevelt’s family line 209 Eleanor Roosevelt with Mary Harriman Rumsey and Isabella Greenway 218 Eleanor Roosevelt with her first baby, Anna 223 Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok on a vacation trip 233 Eleanor Roosevelt with journalist Ann Cottrell in Geneva 257
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