Courage in a Dangerous World

by Roosevelt, Eleanor

• ISBN13: 9780231111812
• ISBN10: 0231111819
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-10-01
• Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr

Summary

Dozens of books have been written about Eleanor Roosevelt, but her own writings are largely confined to the Roosevelt archives in Hyde Park. Courage in a Dangerous Worldallows her own voice again to be heard. Noted Eleanor Roosevelt scholar Allida M. Black has gathered more than two hundred columns, articles, essays, and speeches culled from archives whose pages number in the millions, tracing her development from timorous columnist to one of liberalism's most outspoken leaders.From "My Day" newspaper columns about Marian Anderson and excerpts from Moral Basis of Democracyand This Troubled Worldto speeches and articles on the Holocaust and McCarthyism, this anthology provides readers with the tools to reconstruct the politics of a woman who redefined American liberalism and democratic reform. Arranged chronologically and by topic, the volume covers the New Deal years, the White House years, World War II at home and abroad, the United Nations and human rights, the Cold War, the civil rights movement, the resurgence of feminism, and much more. In addition, the collection features excerpts from Eleanor Roosevelt's correspondence with Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Adlai Stevenson, J. Edgar Hoover, John F. Kennedy, and ordinary Americans.The volume features a collection of 30 rare photographs. A comprehensive bibliography of Eleanor Roosevelt's articles serves as a valuable resource, providing a link to the issues she held dear, many of which are still hotly debated today.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction	1	(16)
Part I: The New Deal Years: 1933--1940
``The State's Responsibility for Fair Working Conditions''	17	(1)
``I Want You to Write to Me''	18	(2)
``Old Age Pensions''	20	(2)
``Subsistence Farmsteads''	22	(4)
``The New Governmental Interest in the Arts''	26	(2)
``In Defense of Curiosity''	28	(6)
``The Negro and Social Change''	34	(3)
``Are We Overlooking the Pursuit of Happiness?''	37	(2)
Married Persons Clause of the Economy Act	39	(1)
The Southern Conference on Human Welfare	40	(2)
Marian Anderson and the Daughters of the American Revolution	42	(1)
The Federal Theater Project	42	(1)
Women, Politics, and Policy	43	(1)
WPA Wages	44	(1)
``The Moral Basis of Democracy''	45	(13)
``Women in Politics''	58	(13)
``Insuring Democracy''	71	(5)
``Helping Them to Help Themselves''	76	(5)
Part II. The Threat of War: 1935--1945
``Because the War Idea Is Obsolete''	81	(5)
``This Troubled World''	86	(15)
Cash and Carry	101	(1)
The Invasion of Poland	102	(1)
Wartime Sacrifice	103	(1)
Should There Be a Referendum on War?	104	(1)
The Bombing of Britian	105	(1)
Pearl Harbor	106	(1)
The Nazi Camps	107	(1)
The Holocaust	108	(1)
D-Day	109	(1)
D-Day, Continued	110	(1)
Conscientious Objectors	111	(1)
Total War	112	(1)
Equal Justice for All	113	(2)
The Atomic Bomb	115	(2)
Part III. The Home Front: 1939--1945
``Keepers of Democracy''	117	(3)
``Intolerance''	120	(5)
``Why I Still Believe in the Youth Congress''	125	(5)
``Civil Liberties---The Individual and the Community''	130	(2)
``Social Gains and Defense''	132	(3)
``Race, Religion and Prejudice''	135	(1)
``Must We Hate to Fight?''	136	(2)
``Freedom: Promise or Fact''	138	(1)
``Abolish Jim Crow!''	139	(1)
``A Challenge to American Sportsmanship''	140	(4)
``Henry A. Wallace's Democracy Reborn''	144	(4)
FDR's Death	148	(1)
Part IV. The United Nations and Human Rights: 1945--1953
``The Universal Declaration of Human Rights''	149	(7)
``The Promise of Human Rights''	156	(6)
``Statement on Draft Covenant on Human Rights''	162	(6)
``Reply to Attacks on U.S. Attitude Toward Human Rights Covenant''	168	(5)
``UN: Good U.S. Investment''	173	(3)
``The Universal Validity of Man's Right to Self-Determination''	176	(4)
``U.N. Deliberations on Draft Convention on the Political Rights of Women''	180	(7)
``Eisenhower Administration Rejects Treaty''	187	(2)
ER's Response to Eisenhower	189	(1)
``Where Do Human Rights Begin?''	190	(1)
Part V. The Cold War Abroad: 1945--1963
Revisiting Yalta	191	(1)
``The Russians Are Tough''	192	(5)
The Korean War	197	(1)
Truman's Dismissal of MacArthur	198	(1)
China and the Korean War	199	(1)
``First Need: Resettlement''	200	(2)
``The Changing India''	202	(4)
``Soviet Attacks on Social Conditions in U.S.''	206	(2)
``Why Are We Cooperating with Tito?''	208	(4)
Tensions in the Middle East	212	(1)
``What Are We For?''	213	(8)
The Bay of Pigs and the Congo	221	(2)
``What Has Happened to the American Dream?''	223	(8)
Part VI. The Cold War at Home: 1945--1963
Full Employment	231	(3)
Price Controls and Postwar Production	234	(2)
``Why I Do Not Choose to Run''	236	(3)
Loyalty Oaths	239	(1)
Taft-Hartley Act	240	(1)
Correspondence Regarding Taft-Hartley	241	(2)
House Committee on Un-American Activities	243	(2)
``Plain Talk About Wallace''	245	(2)
``Liberals in This Year of Decision''	247	(6)
Dispute with Francis Cardinal Spellman	253	(1)
Correspondence with Cardinal Spellman	254	(5)
Address to Americans for Democratic Action	259	(4)
``If I Were a Republican Today''	263	(2)
Senator Joseph McCarthy	265	(2)
Alger Hiss	267	(2)
``Social Responsibility for Individual Welfare'	269	(4)
Stevenson Campaign Address	273	(4)
Segregation in the South	277	(1)
The Smith Act	278	(1)
The Civil Rights Bill of 1957	279	(1)
Stevenson on the Civil Rights Bill	280	(1)
Correspondence with Lyndon Johnson Regarding the Above Column	281	(2)
``Ike---`Nice Man, Poor Leader'; Nixon---`Anything to Get Elected'''	283	(3)
``Why I Am Opposed to `Right to Work' Laws''	286	(4)
Statement on Behalf of the National Consumers League	290	(4)
Lyndon Johnson and the Civil Rights Act of 1960	294	(1)
Stevenson, Kennedy and the 1960 Democratic Convention	294	(2)
Campaigning for Kennedy: Four Selections	296	(3)
Presidential Commission on the Status of Women	299	(1)
``The Social Revolution''	300	(11)
Appendix: A Comprehensive Bibliography of the Articles of Eleanor Roosevelt	311	(22)
Index	333