She asks questions of the people in the camp. Do they have enough food? How long have they been there? The answers she receives are discouraging. The price of cotton is dropping, farmers are being forced into foreclosure, the dust storms have ruined the land and people are starving. A few days later ER returns home to her husband Franklin Delano Roosevelt, urging him to take action in aiding the Dust Bowl refugees. (Wills, 1997)

Scots run was a scattering of mine camps in West Virginia, overrun with extreme poverty and unfit living conditions during the years of the Great Depression. A Quaker women recalls an exhausted poor mother sitting in a dirty hovel telling her story of grief and hunger to ER who sat listening intently. The mother’s baby rested on Eleanor’s lap while she rocked her gently. (Youngs, 1985). ER immersed herself completely, mentally, ph

Well into her seventies Eleanor still followed a full time schedule, making over a hundred speeches a year and keeping fifteen to twenty appointments a day.

To continue the legacy of her husbands ideologies, President Harry Truman offered ER a position as an American Delegate to the United Nations. Eleanor traveled across Europe, witnessing first hand the devastation of Germany by the Allies and the bomb damaged ruins of Berlin. She stood among the Holocaust survivors at Zilcheim, a Jewish camp outside Frankfurt and listened to the stories of their tragedy and survival. (Macleish, 1965)

Some topics in this essay:
Eleanor Roosevelt, White House, Dust Bowl, Act ER, Supreme Courts, War Regardless, Ideally ER, Sheppard-Towner Act, Marion Anderson, Depression Quaker, weisen 1992, eleanor roosevelt, scots run, roosevelt 1958, qtd weisen 1992, qtd weisen, goodwin 1998, youngs 1985, white house, civil rights, dust bowl, delegate united nations, carrie chapman catt, scots run dust, run dust bowl,