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Each document posted reflects the variety of Eleanor Roosevelt ���s interests. Readers are encouraged to browse the documents to see the breadth of her concerns.
Activism
- Eleanor Roosevelt to Sidney Hillman, July 27, 1945
- Speech at the Phi Beta Kappa Association Founders' Day Dinner (1949)
- Remarks to the Americans for Democratic Action on Individual Liberty (1950)
- Campaign Address for Adlai Stevenson (1956)
- Commencement Address at Sarah Lawrence College (1957)
China
- I Was Denied a Visa to Visit Red China (My Day, June 25, 1957)
Citizenship
- The Negro and Social Change(1936)
- Keynote Address to the New York Democratic State Convention (1946)
- Speech at the Phi Beta Kappa Association Founders' Day Dinner (1949)
- Remarks to the Americans for Democratic Action on Individual Liberty (1950)
Civil Liberties
- Civil Liberties (1940)
- Keepers of Democracy (1939)
- A Point in President's Subversive Order Should be Clarified (My Day, March 25, 1947)
- Speech at the Phi Beta Kappa Association Founders' Day Dinner (1949)
- Remarks to the Americans for Democratic Action on Individual Liberty (1950)
- If You Ask Me (September 1953)
- Interview with Joseph Alsop, March 29, 1951 Foreign Policy
Civil Rights
- Keepers of Democracy (1939)
- The Negro and Social Change(1936)
- The New Governmental Interest in the Arts (1934)
- Eleanor Roosevelt to Harold Ickes, May 26, 1945
- Walter White to Eleanor Roosevelt, October 20, 1947
- Eleanor Roosevelt to Walter White, October 22, 1947
- Eleanor Roosevelt to Robert Hannegan, June 3, 1945
- Speech at the Phi Beta Kappa Association Founders' Day Dinner (1949)
- On Politics and Civil Rights (My Day, August 9, 1957)
- Interview with Senator Karl E. Mundt, March 16, 1951
- Audio Clip of Interview with Senator Karl E. Mundt on party realignment, March 16, 1951
- If You Ask Me (October 1953)
- Eleanor Roosevelt to Lyndon B. Johnson, August 17, 1957
- Lyndon B. Johnson to Eleanor Roosevelt, August 22, 1957
- Eleanor Roosevelt to Lyndon B. Johnson, August 28, 1957
- What Has Happened to the American Dream? (1961)
- Audio Clip of Interview with Joseph Alsop on Communism and foreign aid, March 29, 1951
Communism
- The Struggle for Human Rights (1948)
- I Was Denied a Visa to Visit Red China (My Day, June 25, 1957)
- Speech to the India League (1952)
- Interview with Senator Karl E. Mundt, March 16, 1951
- Audio Clip of Interview with Senator Karl E. Mundt on party realignment, March 16, 1951
- If You Ask Me (September 1953)
- If You Ask Me (October 1953)
- If You Ask Me (September 1953)
- Interview with Joseph Alsop, March 29, 1951 Foreign Policy
- Audio Clip of ER on the Korean War, March 29, 1951
- Audio Clip of Interview with Joseph Alsop on Communism and foreign aid, March 29, 1951
Democracy
- Challenge to American Sportsmanship (1943)
- Civil Liberties (1940)
- Good Citizenship: The Purpose of Education (1930)
- How to Interest Women in Voting (1924)
- Keepers of Democracy (1939)
- Liberals in This Year of Decision (June 1948)
- Old Age Pensions (1934)
- Why Democrats Favor Smith (1927)
- This Troubled World (1938)
- A Point in President's Subversive Order Should be Clarified (My Day, March 25, 1947)
- The Struggle for Human Rights (1948)
- Speech at the Phi Beta Kappa Association Founders' Day Dinner (1949)
- Speech to the India League (1952)
- Interview with Senator Karl E. Mundt, March 16, 1951
- Audio Clip of Interview with Senator Karl E. Mundt on party realignment, March 16, 1951
- If You Ask Me (February 1950)
- If I Were a Republican Today (1950)
- What Has Happened to the American Dream? (1961)
- Interview with John C. Green, August 22, 1951
- Audio Clip of ER on the military occupation of Japan
- Interview with Joseph Alsop, March 29, 1951 Foreign Policy
- Ten Steps Which Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt Believes Would Strengthen Our Democracy (1947)
Economic Policies
- Are We Overlooking the Pursuit of Happiness? (1936)
- In Defense of Curiosity (1935)
- The Negro and Social Change(1936)
- Old Age Pensions (1934)
Education
- Building Character (1931)
- Good Citizenship: The Purpose of Education (1930)
- How to Take Criticism (1944)
- In Defense of Curiosity (1935)
- The Negro and Social Change(1936)
- Speech to the India League (1952)
- If You Ask Me (September 1953)
- What Has Happened to the American Dream? (1961)
- Commencement Address at Sarah Lawrence College (1957)
Employment and Labor
- Are We Overlooking the Pursuit of Happiness? (1936)
- The Negro and Social Change(1936)
- The New Governmental Interest in the Arts (1934)
- Subsistence Farmsteads (1934)
- What I Hope to Leave Behind (1933)
- Eleanor Roosevelt to Robert Hannegan, June 3, 1945
- Keynote Address to the New York Democratic State Convention (1946)
- If You Ask Me (September 1953)
ER on ER
- I Want You to Write to Me (1933)
- I Was Denied a Visa to Visit Red China (My Day, June 25, 1957)
- Eleanor Roosevelt to Lorena Hickok, April 19, 1945 (transcribed version)
- Eleanor Roosevelt to Lorena Hickok, April 19, 1945 (pdf version)
- Eleanor Roosevelt to Maude Gray, December 9, 1948 (pdf version)
- If You Ask Me (August 1954)
- If You Ask Me (February 1950)
- If You Ask Me (October 1953)
- If You Ask Me (September 1953)
- Eleanor Roosevelt to Maude Gray, December 9, 1948
Foreign Aid
- Plain Talk About Wallace (1948) )
- Speech to the India League (1952)
- If I Were a Republican Today (1950)
- What Has Happened to the American Dream? (1961)
- Audio Clip of Interview with Joseph Alsop on Communism and foreign aid, March 29, 1951
- Ten Steps Which Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt Believes Would Strengthen Our Democracy (1947)
Foreign Policy
- Challenge to American Sportsmanship (1943)
- Harry Truman to Eleanor Roosevelt, December 21, 1945
- Eleanor Roosevelt to George Marshall, March 13, 1948
- Eleanor Roosevelt to Harry S. Truman, March 22, 1948
- Speech to the Democratic National Convention Urging Support for the United Nations (1952)
- Campaign Address for Adlai Stevenson (1956)
- Interview with John C. Green, August 22, 1951
- Audio Clip of ER on the military occupation of Japan
- Interview with Joseph Alsop, March 29, 1951 Foreign Policy
- Audio Clip of ER on the Korean War, March 29, 1951
- Audio Clip of Interview with Joseph Alsop on Communism and foreign aid, March 29, 1951
- Ten Steps Which Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt Believes Would Strengthen Our Democracy (1947)
- George W. Edman to Eleanor Roosevelt, March 26, 1952
Freedom
- In Defense of Curiosity (1935)
- Race, Religion and Prejudice (1942)
- What Religion Means to Me (1932)
Health
- Subsistence Farmsteads (1934)
Human Rights
- The Promise of Human Rights (1948)
- The Struggle for Human Rights (1948)
- Statement to the United Nations' General Assembly on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
- If You Ask Me (October 1953)
India
- Speech to the India League (1952)
- India and the Awakening East (1953)
- Eleanor Roosevelt to Harry S Truman, March 7, 1952
- Radio Interview with Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, March 22, 1952
Japan
Japanese Internment
McCarthyism
- Liberals in This Year of Decision (June 1948)
- A Point in President's Subversive Order Should be Clarified (My Day, March 25, 1947)
- If You Ask Me (September 1953)
Palestine
Party Politics
- How to Interest Women in Voting (1924)
- How to Take Criticism (1944)
- Plain Talk About Wallace (1948) )
- What Ten Million Women Want (1932)
- Why Democrats Favor Smith (1927)
- Why I Do Not Choose to Run (1946)
- Women Must Learn to Play the Game as Men Do (1928)
- Cover and Editorial Page of Women's Democratic News (1925)
- Eleanor Roosevelt to Harold Ickes, May 26, 1945
- Eleanor Roosevelt to Sidney Hillman, July 27, 1945
- Eleanor Roosevelt to Harry S. Truman, March 22, 1948
- Eleanor Roosevelt to Frances Perkins, October 4, 1948
- Eleanor Roosevelt to Harry S. Truman, October 4, 1948
- Eleanor Roosevelt to Robert Hannegan, June 3, 1945
- Speech to the Democratic National Convention Urging Support for the United Nations (1952)
- Keynote Address to the New York Democratic State Convention (1946)
- On Politics and Civil Rights (My Day, August 9, 1957)
- Interview with Senator Karl E. Mundt, March 16, 1951
- Audio Clip of Interview with Senator Karl E. Mundt on party realignment, March 16, 1951
- Campaign Address for Adlai Stevenson (1956)
- Eleanor Roosevelt to Lyndon B. Johnson, August 17, 1957
- Lyndon B. Johnson to Eleanor Roosevelt, August 22, 1957
- Eleanor Roosevelt to Lyndon B. Johnson, August 28, 1957
- If I Were a Republican Today (1950)
Presidential Elections
Refugees and Immigration
Religion
- Race, Religion and Prejudice (1942)
- What Religion Means to Me (1932)
- Why Democrats Favor Smith (1927)
- Cover and Editorial Page of Women's Democratic News (1925)
- Eleanor Roosevelt's Wartime Prayer
- If You Ask Me (August 1954)
- Commencement Address at Sarah Lawrence College (1957)
Social Security
- Are We Overlooking the Pursuit of Happiness? (1936)
- Old Age Pensions (1934)
- Subsistence Farmsteads (1934)
- Keynote Address to the New York Democratic State Convention (1946)
- If You Ask Me (February 1950)
Soviet Union (USSR)
- The Struggle for Human Rights (1948)
- On My Own (1958)
- Interview with Nikita Kruschev, September 27, 1957 (My Day, October 3-8, 1957
- Leningrad, USSR Travel Notes (1957)
- Moscow, USSR Travel Notes (1957)
- Socchi, USSR Travel Notes (1957)
Totalitarianism
United Nations and League of Nations
- Liberals in This Year of Decision (June 1948)
- The Promise of Human Rights (1948)
- This Troubled World (1938)
- Harry Truman to Eleanor Roosevelt, December 21, 1945
- Walter White to Eleanor Roosevelt, October 20, 1947
- Eleanor Roosevelt to Walter White, October 22, 1947
- Eleanor Roosevelt to George Marshall, March 13, 1948
- Eleanor Roosevelt to Harry S. Truman, March 22, 1948
- Eleanor Roosevelt to Harry S. Truman, October 4, 1948
- The Struggle for Human Rights (1948)
- Speech to the Democratic National Convention Urging Support for the United Nations (1952)
- Statement to the United Nations' General Assembly on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
- Eleanor Roosevelt to Maude Gray, December 9, 1948 (pdf version)
- If You Ask Me (February 1950)
- If You Ask Me (September 1953)
- Interview with Joseph Alsop, March 29, 1951 Foreign Policy
- Ten Steps Which Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt Believes Would Strengthen Our Democracy (1947)
- Eleanor Roosevelt to Maude Gray, December 9, 1948
War and Peace
- Plain Talk About Wallace (1948)
- Why I Do Not Choose to Run (1946)
- This Troubled World (1938)
- Cover and Editorial Page of Women's Democratic News (1925)
- Harry Truman to Eleanor Roosevelt, December 21, 1945
- Eleanor Roosevelt to George Marshall, March 13, 1948
- Radio Address, December 7, 1941 (Attack on Pearl Harbor)
- Speech on V-J Day (1945)
- Eleanor Roosevelt's Wartime Prayer
- Keynote Address to the New York Democratic State Convention (1946)
- If You Ask Me (February 1950)
- Interview with Joseph Alsop, March 29, 1951 Foreign Policy
Women and Gender
- Good Citizenship: The Purpose of Education (1930)
- How to Interest Women in Voting (1924)
- How to Take Criticism (1944)
- I Want You to Write to Me (1933)
- In Defense of Curiosity (1935)
- In Defense of Curiosity (1935)
- What I Hope to Leave Behind (1933)
- What Ten Million Women Want (1932)
- Why I Do Not Choose to Run (1946)
- Women Must Learn to Play the Game as Men Do (1928)
- Eleanor Roosevelt to Robert Hannegan, June 3, 1945
- If You Ask Me (August 1954)
- Speech Delivered in Jakarta, Indonesia (1952)
World War II
- Challenge to American Sportsmanship (1943)
- Race, Religion and Prejudice (1942)
- This Troubled World (1938)
- Radio Address, December 7, 1941 (Attack on Pearl Harbor)
- Speech on V-J Day (1945)
- If You Ask Me (August 1954)
- Interview with John C. Green, August 22, 1951
- Audio Clip of ER on the military occupation of Japan
- Eleanor Roosevelt to Joseph Lash, October 22, 1942
- Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin Roosevelt, October 25, 1942
- Eleanor Roosevelt to Lorena Hickok, November 5, 1942
- Eleanor Roosevelt to Malvina Thompson, August 26, 1943
- Eleanor Roosevelt to Lorena Hickok, September 1, 1943
- Eleanor Roosevelt to Franklin D. Roosevelt, September 2, 1943
- Eleanor Roosevelt to Lorena Hickok, September 12, 1943
- BBC Broadcast from Liverpool, UK, November 8, 1942
- White House Press Conference (1942)
- Speech Delivered in Canberra, Australia (1943)
- Speech Delivered in Sydney, Australia (1943)
- Diary (Excerpts) (1942)
- Diary (Excerpts) (1943)