Miles davis and lena horne, generation africanamericans who found success in their respective fields during the start of a broader Civil Rights Movement. Wil haygood discusses his book with dave cybercom sports columnist for the nation magazine and author of a peoples history of sports in the United States. Host welcome to after words. I am days island, the Sports Editor for the nation magazine and an absolutely thrilled to be interviewing a man who has written a tremendous biography about the greatest out for pound boxer of the 20th century. That boxers name is walker smith, jr. , better known as Sugar Ray Robinson. And the author is will haywood. Will come how are you doing . Guest good to be here. Host great to have you. I really do think this book is worthy of sugar sugar ray robi. Instruments achieve it so congratulations right away trade to thank you. Host you are not a sports biographer of by trade. Guest right. Host why did you decide to spend five years of your life writing th
Tarsus their own skirts from. Which we got from the home. Of that material which was the leg material which turned out the nazi flag was of that. Theyre huge a roll of blue and why its cotton material which the germans used. As a make clothes for the babies and the smart children designed hearts and blue invites little you know pence and the children looked adorable you know they looked like they were french sailors. After everything we went through in the war in this store was paradise a paradise on earth. There were people who were there just for us miss fisher mr marks and the others became like parents to us go believe you know exactly. What it can feel like home. Or was there. But it felt save. Queen elizabeth ducking a father and son had a 5 minute delegates of United Nations general assembly. As 1st Lady Eleanor Roosevelt had already in 1039. 00 urged jewish refugee children from germany be admitted to the u. S. A few months after the war ended she met with a United Nations obse
Fdr started sketching what ended up being the structure here to incorporate elinors papers. When his archivist said, do you think she will give them to you, and fdr said, you can never tell what my missus is going to do. Which i think is a true statement about Eleanor Roosevelt. How many of you are members here today . Look at that. Thank you so much. Your support makes programs like this possible. We appreciate everything you do for us. The library is a federally funded institution, but we rely on private donations to allow us to do many nonfederal programs like exhibits and things like that. Today we have with us a very special friend and guest. She spent many days here when she was working on the Eleanor Roosevelt papers for George Washington university. Which is a tremendous resource. She is now with George Mason University down in virginia. She has put together a book that looks at the advice that Eleanor Roosevelt gave. I think it is amazing how relevant so many of the questions
Opened, fdr started sketching what would be the structure here to incorporate eleanors papers. When his archivist said do you think she will give them to you, and fdr said, you can never tell what my misses is going to do. How many of you are members here today . Look at that. Thank you so much. Your support makes programs like this possible. We appreciate everything you do for us. A library is a federally funded institution, but we rely on private donations to allow us to to do programs and exhibits and things like that. Today we have with us a very special friend and guest. She spent many days here when she was working on the Eleanor Roosevelt papers for George Washington university. Which is a tremendous resource. She is now with George Mason University down in virginia. She has put together a book that looks at the advice the Eleanor Roosevelt gave. I think it is amazing how relevant so many of the questions were, even though they are 50 years old. How relevant they are to our Soci
Roosevelts advice column, written for more than 20 years for ladies home journal and mccalls magazine. Held at the Franklin Roosevelt library and museum, this is one hour. Mr. Sparrow hello, good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the wallace center, here at the Franklin Roosevelt president ial library and museum, and happy birthday, Eleanor Roosevelt. [applause] it is one of the things we are so lucky to have eleanors papers here along with papers of Franklin Roosevelt and his administration. If you go over and look at the building, the two wings of the library are actually the Eleanor Roosevelt wings that were built in 1972. Even after the Library First opened, fdr started sketching what ended up being the structure here to incorporate eleanors papers. He was telling her, we need to have your papers at the library. When his archivist said, do you think she will give them to you, and fdr said, you can never tell what my missus is going to do. Which i think is a true statement about Elean