First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt Will Personally Support Efforts to Help Women Fight the Depression
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The Gentlewomen’s League of Washington was an organization particularly active during the Great Depression and was one of the most successful women’s exchanges in the country. Any funds which were collected above the necessary expenses of running the League were turned into a fund for helping the needy women who were constantly...
The Gentlewomen’s League of Washington was an organization particularly active during the Great Depression and was one of the most successful women’s exchanges in the country. Any funds which were collected above the necessary expenses of running the League were turned into a fund for helping the needy women who were constantly coming to the organization for aid. Many of these had once been of means, but had been financially stranded by the Depression. Moreover, every member of the board gave of her own private funds toward support of the League, and hundreds of women sold their goods through the League, giving them an income when money was hard to come by.
Typed letter signed, on White House stationery, Washington, December 4, 1933, to Mrs. William Aspinwall, expressing her willingness to support the League financially. “I have asked my housekeeper to keep the Gentlewomen’s League in mind and to buy what she can from there. I will also keep it in mind in respect to any other shopping.” It comes with the original envelope.
An interesting insight into Eleanor Roosevelt and her own efforts to help women fight the Great Depression.
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