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Eleanor Roosevelt: African Americans
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In 1964, Eleanor Roosevelt helped in founding of the 2,800 acre Roosevelt Campobello International Park on Campobello Island, New Brunswick. This followed a gift of the Roosevelt summer estate to the Canadian and American governments.
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An image of Eleanor Roosevelt's letter resigning her membership to the Daughters of the American Revolution. Mrs. Roosevelt resigned because she disagreed with the organization's decision to bar the world-renowned African American singer Marian Anderson from performing at its Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C.
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Eleanor Roosevelt died at the age of 78 of tuberculosis. All government offices and overseas installations were ordered to fly the Flag at half-mast. The gesture was acknowledgement of what Americans already knew from the polls, and from stories that would come from villages and hamlets all over the world, that she was the most admired woman in the world.
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Roosevelt demonstrated the courage of her convictions. In 1939 she publicly resigned her membership to the elite Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR). The DAR had denied permission to African American singer Marian Anderson to perform in Constitution Hall. Outraged at the group's racism, Roosevelt helped organize an alternate concert for Anderson at the Lincoln Memorial.
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Eleanor was ... an outspoken opponent of racial segregation. Eleanor’s most visible attack on segregation involved the black opera singer Marian Anderson and the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), a patriotic organization to which Eleanor belonged. In 1939 the DAR refused to allow Anderson, an internationally renowned singer, to perform in its Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. Eleanor denounced the DAR’s action in her newspaper column, resigned her membership in the DAR, and helped arrange to have Anderson hold an outdoor concert at the Lincoln Memorial.
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Eleanor earned large amounts of money from advertising activities. The Pan-American Coffee Bureau, which was supported by tax revenues from eight foreign governments, paid Roosevelt $1000 a week for advertising. When the State Department found out that the First Lady was being paid so handsomely by foreign governments, they unsuccessfully tried to have the deal cancelled.[1]
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