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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
Introduction: The Hand of Friendship
Prelude: Camp Tera, 1933–35
Part I: Taking Aim at the White House, 1938–40
1. “It Is the Problem of My People”
2. “Members of Your Race Are Not Admitted”
3. “We Have to Be Very Careful About the People We Select”
4. “I Am Resigning”
5. “We … Are the Disinherited”
6. “It Was the Highest Honor … to Meet and Talk with You”
7. “When People Overwork Themselves, … They Must Pay for It”
Part II: Bumping Up Against The Law, 1940–42
8. “Miss Murray Was Unwise Not to Comply with the Law”
9. “Where Were We to Turn for Help?”
10. “Will You Do What You Can to Help Us?”
11. “Might as Well Become a Lawyer”
12. “I Have Done Everything I Can Possibly Do”
13. “The President Has Let the Negro Down”
Part III: Making Friends with The First Lady, 1942–44
14. “The Race Problem Is a War Issue”
15. “He Really Didn’t Know Why Women Came to Law School”
16. “Many Good Things Have Happened”
17. “Forgive My Brutal Frankness”
18. “I Count You a Real Friend”
19. “The Flowers Brought Your Spirit to the Graduation”
20. “So at Last We Have Come to D-Day”
21. “This Harvard Business Makes Me Bristle”
Part IV: Standing Up to Life’s Challenges, 1944–45
22. “You Wouldn’t Want to Put Fala in Here”
23. “This Letter Is Confidential”
24. “The Whole Thing Has Left Me Very Disturbed”
25. “I Shall Shout for the Rights of All Mankind”
26. “I Pray for Your Strength and Fortitude”
27. “The Problem Now Is How to Carry On”
Part V: Fashioning New Lives, 1945–52
28. “Just Know How Cherished You Are to So Many”
29. “Glad to Hear the Operation Was Successful”
30. “I Hope to Follow the Roosevelt Tradition”
31. “I Couldn’t Wait to Give You One of the First Copies”
32. “I Have to Stand or Fall with the People Who Know Me”
Part VI: Drawing Closer as Friends, 1952–55
33. “I Could Write in Privacy Without Interruption”
34. “We Consider You a Member of the Family”
35. “I Was Deeply Moved That You Counted Me Among Your Close Friends”
36. “I Know How Much This Decision Means to You”
37. “I Cannot Live with Fear”
38. “Some Fear-Mongers May Feel That Even President Eisenhower Might Be a Security Risk”
39. “What I Have to Say Now Is Entirely Personal”
40. “What a Wonderful Weekend It Was”
41. “You Might … Comment from the Special Woman’s Angle”
42. “I Cannot Afford to Be a Piker”
Part VII: Fighting for a Just World, 1956–59
43. “There Appears to Be a Cleavage”
44. “You’re a Bit of a Firebrand Yourself”
45. “You Caught the Feeling I Had in Mind”
46. “I Never Cease to Marvel at the Greatness of Your Humanity”
47. “Our Friendship Produced Sparks of Sheer Joy”
48. “You Can Say We Had a Friendly Conversation, but We Differ”
49. “The Chips Are Really Down in Little Rock”
50. “Discrimination Does Something Intangible and Harmful”
51. “There Are Times When a Legal Brief Is Inadequate”
52. “That Granddaughter Must Be a Chip off the Venerable Block”
Part VIII: Lighting The Path for New Activists, 1959–62
53. “Nothing I Had Read or Heard Prepared Me”
54. “It Is a Bit of a Pest to Have to Keep Still”
55. “I Hope You Were Not in Danger”
56. “Read That You Had a Bad Case of Flu”
57. “I Am as Well as Anyone Can Be at My Age”
58. “Would You Please Bring Me a Glass of Lemonade?”
59. “We Shall Be Working Doubly Hard to Carry On”
Part IX: Speaking Truth to the End, 1963–85
60. “Mrs. Roosevelt’s Spirit Marches On”
61. “I Have Been a Person with an Independent Inquiring Mind”
62. “Mrs. R. Seemed to Have Been Forgotten”
63. “The Missing Element … Is Theological”
64. “God’s Presence Is as Close as the Touch of a Loved One’s Hand”
65. “Hopefully, We Have Picked Up the Candle”
66. “Eleanor Roosevelt Was the Most Visible Symbol of Autonomy”
67. “All the Strands of My Life Had Come Together”
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
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