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Education Clip: Eleanor Strikes Out on her Own

2m 42s

Eleanor Roosevelt begins to strike out on her own. FDR’s affair with her former secretary, Lucy Mercer, almost devastated her. Her volunteerism at meaningful work changed her. She learned skills and joined the board of the League of Women Voters, and made friends with other female activists promoting progressive ideas. Like her Uncle Theodore, and like FDR, Eleanor would always crave action.

Aired: 09/12/14
Funding is provided by Bank of America; CPB; Mr. Jack C. Taylor; The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations; The NEH; Rosalind P. Walter; Members of The Better Angels Society, including Jessica & John Fullerton; The Pfeil Foundation: David, Mindy, Robert & Daniel Pfeil; Joan Wellhouse Newton; Bonnie & Tom McCloskey; and The Golklin Family.
Extras
Watch the introduction to The Roosevelts: An Intimate History.
Examine Eleanor’s role as civil rights and U.N champion after FDR’s death.
Survey FDR’s leadership during WWII, while Eleanor tends to wounded servicemen.
Examine FDR’s New Deal and Eleanor’s growing political activism.
FDR battles with polio and responds to the Great Depression.
Trace the effects of WWI on the lives of the Roosevelts.
Theodore’s presidency and FDR and Eleanor’s courtship and marriage.
Timeline Clip - Theodore Roosevelt has dinner with Booker T. Washington.
Examine the early lives of Theodore Roosevelt and his younger cousin, Franklin.
Timeline Clip - Theodore Roosevelt’s Views On Civilization
Examine Eleanor’s role as civil rights and U.N champion after FDR’s death.
Survey FDR’s leadership during WWII, while Eleanor tends to wounded servicemen.
Examine FDR’s New Deal and Eleanor’s growing political activism.
FDR battles with polio and responds to the Great Depression.
Trace the effects of WWI on the lives of the Roosevelts.
Theodore’s presidency and FDR and Eleanor’s courtship and marriage.
Examine the early lives of Theodore Roosevelt and his younger cousin, Franklin.