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Eleanor Roosevelt

Beasley, Maurine H. "Eleanor Roosevelt and the Media: A Public Quest for Self Fulfillment." Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987.

Black, Allida M. "Casting Her Own Shadow: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Shaping of Postwar Liberalism." New York: Columbia University Press, 1996.

"What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt, ed. Allida M. Black. New York: Carlson Publishing, 1995.

Cook, Blanche Wiesen. "Eleanor Roosevelt." New York: Viking Press, 1992, vols. 1-2.

Evans, Sara M. "Born for Liberty: A History of Women in America." New York: Free Press, 1989.

Goodwin, Doris Kearns. "No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Homefront in World War II." New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.

Lash, Joseph P. "Eleanor and Franklin: The Story of Their Relationship." New York: Norton, 1971.

Roosevelt, Eleanor. "The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt." New York: Da Capo Press, 1992.


Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Allen, Frederick Lewis. "Since Yesterday: The Nineteen-Thirties in America." New York: Harper & Brothers, 1940.

Burns, James McGregor. "Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox." New York: Harcourt, 1956.

Leuchtenburg, William. "Franklin D. Roosevelt and The New Deal 1932-1940." New York: Harper & Row, 1963.

Morgan, Ted. "FDR: A Biography." New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985.

Schlesinger, Arthur. "The Age of Roosevelt." Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1957.

Stiles, Lela. "The Man Behind Roosevelt: The Story of Louis McHenry Howe." New York: World Publishing, 1954.

Ward, Geoffrey. "Before the Trumpet: Young Franklin Roosevelt, 1882-1905." New York: Harper & Row, 1985.


Theodore Roosevelt

McCullough, David. "Mornings on Horseback." New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981.

Miller, Nathan. "Theodore Roosevelt: A Life." New York: Morrow, 1992.

Putnam, Carleton. "Theodore Roosevelt: A Biography." New York: Scribner's Sons, 1958.


Marian Anderson

Anderson, Marian. "My Lord, What a Morning." New York: Viking Press, 1956.

Hunting, Harold B. "Marian Anderson" in "Rising Above Color." Philip Henry Lotz, ed. New York: Association Press, 1946.

Richardson, Ben. "Great American Negroes." New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1945.

Roosevelt, Eleanor. "My Day, February 21, 1936" in "Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945." Rochelle Chadakoff, ed. New York: Pharos Books, 1989.

Stokes, Anson Phelps. "Art and the Color Line." Executive Committee of the National Board of Management of the D.A.R., 1939.


Mary McLeod Bethune

Bethune, Mary McLeod. "A Century of Progress of Negro Women," in "Black Women in White America: A Documentary History." Gerda Lerner, ed. New York: Pantheon Books, 1972.

Embree, Edwin R. "13 Against the Odds." New York: Viking Press, 1944.

Riggs, Marcia Y., ed. "Can I Get a Witness?: Prophetic Religious Voices of African American Women: An Anthology." New York: Orbis Books, 1997.

Roosevelt, Eleanor. "My Day, May 3, 1952" in "Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1945-1952." David Emblidge, ed. New York: Pharos Books, 1990.

"My Day, May 20, 1955" in "Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1953-1962." David Emblidge, ed. New York: Pharos Books, 1991.


J. Edgar Hoover

Bergman, Andrew. "We're In the Money: Depression America and Its Films." New York: Harper & Row, 1971.

Gentry, Curt. "J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets." New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1991.

Potter, Claire Bond. "War On Crime: Bandits, G-Men, and the Politics of Mass Culture." New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1998.


Louis Howe

Rollins, Alfred B. "Roosevelt and Howe." New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1962.

"Roosevelt, Eleanor. "The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt." New York: Da Capo Press, 1992.

Stiles, Lela. "The Man Behind Roosevelt: The Story of Louis McHenry Howe." New York: World Publishing, 1954.


The Progressive Era

Chambers, John W. "The Tyranny of Change: America in the Progressive Era, 1890-1920." New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992.

Hofstadter, Richard. "The Age of Reform: From Bryan to F.D.R. New York: Vintage Books, 1955.

Cooper, John Milton. "Pivotal Decades: The United States, 1900-1920." New York: Norton, 1990.


The Battle for Suffrage

Evans, Sara M. "Born for Liberty: A History of Women in America." New York: Free Press, 1989.


Detroit Race Riot

Lee, Alfred McClung and Norman Daymond Humphrey. "Race Riot." New York: Dryden Press, 1943.

Shogan, Robert and Tom Craig. "The Detroit Race Riot: A Study in Violence." New York: Chilton Books, 1964.



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