African Americans
armed services for
cause for
civil rights for
criticisms for
in defense industries
education for
during Great Depression
in household
injustice for
Jim Crow laws and
jobs for
lynching of
messmen only for
outreach to
racial tensions and
Roosevelt, F., and
segregation against
social standing for
sympathy for
at training bases
visiting schools of
War Department and
West Virginia and
White House for
in WW II
Allenswood Academy
building on
French studies in
students of
Alley Dwelling Authority
American Civil Liberties Union
Anderson, Charles A.
Anderson, Marian
anorexia
anti-lynching bill
Appalachia poverty
armed services
African Americans in
defense industries and
desegregation in
with racial discrimination
WW II with
Army Air Corps
Arthurdale
Arthurdale Homesteaders Club
Belafonte, Harry
Bethune, Mary Jane McLeod
Bleak House (Dickens)
Boettiger, John
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
Campobello Island
The Canterbury Tales (Chaucer)
“carnivals of death”
charity
of Children’s Aid Society
with Junior League
raising money for
Roosevelt, F., for
with Roosevelt, Theodore, Sr.
social consciousness through
Chaucer
childhood
child labor
Children’s Aid Society
child welfare laws
China
Chinese Americans
civic responsibility
Civilian Conservation Crops (CCC)
civil liberties
civil rights
African Americans for
criticism for
fight for
First Lady for
NAACP for
new laws for
with Randolph
Roosevelt, F., for
social conditions and
taking heat from
writings on
during WW II
coal mining
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
Connor, Eugene
Constitution
Constitution Hall
Cook, Nancy
Costigan, Edward P.
Costigan-Wagner Bill
debating of
New Deal with
Cox, James
Daniels, Joseph
Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR)
Davis, Benjamin
Declaration of Independence
defense industries
African Americans in
armed services and
in Detroit
jobs for
Sojourner Truth for
Democratic Party
desegregation
Detroit
Dickens, Charles
Douglass, Frederick
Draper, George
dress balls
economic system
Eiffel Tower
Eleanor Clubs
“Eleanor Everywhere” (nickname)
Fair Employment Practice Committee
fashionable dress
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
at Highlander Folk School
KKK and
surveillance by
federal relief projects
fireside chats
First Lady
Army Air Corps and
for civil rights
for immigrants
role of
Secret Service and
with travel
Tuskegee Airmen and
wages for
Wilson, E., as
WW II and
Forrestal James
Fourteenth Amendment
freedom of speech
General Assembly
Germany
invasion by
Jews and
victory over
governorship
Great Depression
African Americans during
economy during
New Deal and
guns
Hall, Mary
disciplinarian of
of grandmother
as widow
Hall library
Halsey, William
Harding, Warren G.
Harvard
Hickok, Lorena
Highlander Folk School
class at
FBI at
speech at
high society. See also social season
Hiroshima
Nagasaki and
Hitler, Adolf
honeymoon
Hoover, Herbert
Hoover, J. Edgar
Hopkins, Charlotte Everett
household
Howe, Louis
bond with
campaign input with
impressions of
polio and
trusted advisor of
Hyde Park
Democratic Party of
Roosevelt, F., childhood at
Roosevelt, F., in
Val-Kill and
Ickes, Harold
immigrants
First Lady for
Junior League and
Rivington Street Settlement House and
tightening laws for
injustice
African American with
fighting of
Hitler and
internment
internment camps
Israel
Italy
Jackson, Graham
Japan
Japanese Americans
Jews
anti-Semitic comments for
Germany and
Israel and
U.S. safety for
Jim Crow laws
Junior League
Kennedy, John F.
King, Martin Luther Jr.
King, Miles Davis
Knox, Frank
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
bounty from
confrontation with
FBI and
racial tensions from
labor laws
Ladies Home Journal
League of Women Voters
letters
Lincoln, Abraham
Little Nell
London, England
destruction of
teenage life in
U.N. in
Lower East Side
lynching
of African Americans
anti-lynching bill for
NAACP against
of Neal
riots during
of Washington, J.
Marshall, George
Mercer, Lucy
love letters from
Roosevelt, F., affair with
as social secretary
messmen
Mexicans
Miller, Dorie
Montgomery Bus Boycott
motherhood
Murray, Pauli
lifelong friend of
racism and
segregation and
at White House
Nagasaki
Hiroshima and
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
civil rights with
joining board of
against lynching
National Consumers League
National Council of Women
National Housing Conference
National Organization for Women
National Youth Administration
Neal, Claude
New Deal
with Costigan-Wagner Bill
for “Eleanor Everywhere”
new agencies with
platform of
segregation and
WPA and
Newsboys’ Lodge
newspaper reporters
New York
high society of
at La Guardia
Lower East Side of
town house in
New York City
Nineteenth Amendment
Parish, Susie
Parks, Rosa
Patterson, Robert
Pearl Harbor
Peterson, Cecil
Pittsburgh Courier
polio
family shock to
Howe and
Roosevelt, F., and
Warm Springs for
politics
alliances in
increase interest in
Roosevelt, F., staying in
voting rights and
wifely duty and
Port Chicago, California
poverty
public education
public speaking
racial discrimination
racial tensions
African Americans and
“darky” for
from KKK
WW II with
racism
Randolph, A. Philip
Red Cross
Rivington Street Settlement House
Roosevelt, Alice
Roosevelt, Anna Hall
diphtheria for
disappoint from
great beauty of
mother of
Roosevelt, E., marriage with
social season with
Roosevelt, Eleanor. See also specific topics
Roosevelt, Elliott
death of
family of
of father
generosity of
Roosevelt, Anna marriage
time with
Roosevelt, Elliott (son)
Roosevelt, Elliott Jr.
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
African Americans and
ambitions of
amusing anecdotes by
charity with
for civil rights
confident with
courtship of
death of
in Democratic Party
differences between
falling out with
fireside chats with
first meeting with
funeral of
with governorship
inauguration speech of
marriage problems with
meeting of
Mercer affair with
oratory style of
polio and
political support with
in politics
preparing for war with
proposal of
pushing agenda on
at Rivington Street Settlement House
Roosevelt, S., relationship with
as suffragist
time with
wedding of
in wheelchairs
working partnership with
Roosevelt, Franklin Jr.
Roosevelt, Hall
Roosevelt, James
Roosevelt, John
Roosevelt, Martha Bulloch
Roosevelt, Sara
death of
Franklin polio and
marriage of
meeting of
motherhood undermined by
on potential divorce
relationship with
Roosevelt, F., relationship with
wedding with
Roosevelt, Theodore (Teddy)
as president
of uncle
wedding with
Roosevelt, Theodore, Sr.
Scott’s Run
Secret Service
segregation
in Arthurdale
forms of
Murray and
New Deal and
Southern Conference for Human Welfare with
Selective Training and Service Act
She-She-She camps
slums
Smith, Alfred E.
social change
social consciousness
social season
Sojourner Truth
Southern Conference for Human Welfare
South Pacific
Souvestre, Marie
fashionable dress by
of headmistress
teachings of
travel with
women’s movement and
Soviet Union
student life
suffragist
sweatshops
teaching
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Tivoli, New York
Todhunter School
Tomorrow Is Now (Roosevelt, Eleanor)
travel
Americans admiration for
First Lady with
with Souvestre
writing and
Truman, Harry S.
Truth, Sojourner
Tuskegee Airmen
Tuskegee University
TVA. See Tennessee Valley Authority
United Nations (U.N.)
Urban League
Val-Kill
Vandenberg, Arthur
voting rights
Wagner, Robert F.
War Department
Warm Springs
Washington, Booker T.
Washington, D.C.
fishbowl of
move to
new strengths for
racial tensions in
riots in
touring slums of
Urban League march on
Washington, Jesse
wedding
West Virginia
whistle shops
White, Walter Francis
White House
for African Americans
black girls lawn party at
march on
Murray at
Williams, Aubrey
Willkie, Wendell
Wilson, Ellen
Wilson, Woodrow
Wiltwyck school
Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps
Women’s Democratic News
women’s movement
Women’s Trade Union League
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
World War I
World War II (WW II)
African Americans in
with armed services
beginning of
civil rights during
First Lady and
with racial tensions
stresses from
vising troops
WPA. See Works Progress Administration
writing
WW II. See World War II