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Though I bounced around between far more than this few sources, to collect and to verify information, I credit The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project created by George Washington University’s history department, dedicated to Eleanor Roosevelt, and Why The Allies Won by Professor Richard Overy for giving me the basic information I needed to outline my investigation and response into whether women were an essential part of the United States World War Two effort.

The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project is an online collective of Eleanor Roosevelt's columns, articles, books, letters, and transcripts for her speeches, radio and television appearances, creating a concise and informational recollection of her life’s work. The creators of the collection cite the lack of teachings of her activism for human rights and prolific journalism. It is clear from reading the explanation for the collective’s reason for …show more content…

This could easily lead to conscious, or unconscious excluding of unflattering details, preventing me from getting the full picture of her actions as pertaining to my subject. This site had specific sections delineated to major events in both her life and to the United States timeline, the most relevant to me being the section on her contributions to WWII. This site can be quite a valuable resource, not only for students looking to tell her story, or to trace her influence, but also as a source for inspiration in modern activist platforms, One could evaluate Roosevelt’s actions and use it to shape their own activism, shying away from tactics that have been shown not to work, and implementing those that do. If doing that one should also look at the way times have changed, an important part of my paper is evaluating the changes introduced as women were introduced into the workforce, Roosevelt taking a position in the Office of Civilian Defense caused so much

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