Eleanor Roosevelt

• Who was an influential person in the improvement of black American's rights?

  Eleanor Roosevelt
• What did Eleanor do to promote black American issues?

  She ensured that her husband regularly met NAACP members and other prominent black Americans
• What was the Regular article which Eleanor had?

  The 'My Day' segment
• How many people read Eleanor's column?

  4 million people
• What did the 'My Day' column clearly showcase?

  Eleanor's racial stance
• What did Eleanor do to show her racial stance?

  She resigned from the Daughters of the American revolution
• Why was it surprising that she withdrew from D.A.R?

  It was automatically assumed that the First Lady would be in D.A.R
• What did D.A.R do?

  They were a charity which raised money for widows of the Civil War
• Why did Eleanor resign from D.A.R?

  They didn't offer equal opportunity and wouldn't allow a black singer at one of their events
• When was the Southern Conference on Human welfare?


  1933 in Birmingham, Alabama
• What did Eleanor do to promote black civil rights at the Southern Conference?

  She sat with black delegates
• Which black American figure was Eleanor famously friends with?

  Marian Keynes and Mary Mcleod Bethune
• What did Eleanor utilise to spread her ideas?

  The use of radio
• What did Eleanor promote?

  The National Committee to Abolish the poll tax and sharecropping
• What did Eleanor develop?

  The Fair Employment Practice Committee
• What did Eleanor help with in 1941?


  She helped to avert a threatened black March on Washington
• What did the black March on Washington aim to do?

  Protest racial discrimination in the defence industries which would have brought the nation's capital to a standstill during wartime
• How did Eleanor help set up the FEPC?

  She met with black leaders and convinced FDR to set it up
• What did Eleanor's efforts in Civil rights draw from black Americans?

  It resulted in thousands of letters daily which described racial violence, poverty and homelessness
• What did Eleanor promote in 1941?


  National Sharecroppers week
• Who did Eleanor work with to set up the FEPC?

  ASA Philip Randolph
• What has A. Philip Randolph organised?

  A march on washington which would halt the capital industry during wartime