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Mar 03, 2006 19:36

Allie Berta
Tessa Brown
Tyson Brown
Melissa Pace
Annotated Bibliography

Topic: Eleanor Roosevelt

Source 1
Eureka High School library - secondary source.

Norton, Peter. “Eleanor Roosevelt.” Encyclopedia Britannica. Ed,1988.

This source provided us with a brief, direct history of Eleanor Roosevelt and her racial equality actions.

Source 2
Eureka High School Library - secondary source.

Bahr, Lauren. “Eleanor Roosevelt.” Colliers Encyclopedia. Ed. 1992.

This source gave our group an outline of Eleanor’s life, and family history. This helped us to understand her back ground more knowledgably.

Source 3
Internet -primary source website.

“Eleanor Roosevelt.” Woman in history 14 Dec. 2005

This web page described the history of the events of Marian Anderson’s singing performance. The page also contained Eleanor Roosevelt’s actual article she wrote and had in the paper resigning from the DAR.

Source 4
Internet - secondary source.

“Marian Anderson 1897-1993.” PBS. 15 Dec, 2005

This web page was full of information on Marian Anderson’s life. We wanted to get a look at her background and all of the racial injustices she had to deal with throughout the course of her life.

Source 5
Humboldt County Library - secondary source.
Ching, Juliet. Individual Rights and Civic Responsibility in Woman’s Rights. New York: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc, 2001.

This book helped our group to get a feel for the time period. We wanted to know not only how African American’s were treated in the 30’s, but also how bad most women were treated and what civil rights they were given.

Source 6
Eureka High School Library - secondary source.

Freeman, Russell. Eleanor Roosevelt: A life of Discovery. New York: Clarion Book, 1993.

This book helped our group to understanding where Eleanor Roosevelt got must of her standpoints on racial issues.

Source 7
Eureka High School Library - secondary source.

Deutsch, Sarah. From Ballots to Breadlines: American Women. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

This book focused on many great women of the time period, and not just Mrs. Roosevelt. We learned a lot by reading about other great figures from the time period, such as Wilson’s wife, and were able to make comparisons.

Source 8
Internet - secondary source.

“Marian Anderson.” Women in History. Women in History. 14 Dec. 2005 .

This website challenged many of the group’s ideas on Marian Anderson. We ended up changing part of the script because of this website.

Source 9
Internet - secondary source.

Shawcross, Nancy M. “Singing to the Nation.” Marian Anderson: A Life in Song. 03 Feb. 2003. 16 Dec, 2005. .

This website showed our group of the passion Marian Anderson felt for music.

Source 10
Newspaper Article - primary source.
Rogers, Jean E. “Letters to the Editor: Marian Anderson and the DAR.” Wall Street Journal 03, 1997: A. 15.

This article is one of the key points to our script. Eleanor Roosevelt having Marian Anderson sing was a huge deal at the time. It influenced many people and gave lots of people different perspectives of the Roosevelt’s.

Source 11
Humboldt County Library - secondary source.

Toor, Rachel. Eleanor Roosevelt. USA: Chelsea House Publishers, 1989.

This book had a lot of information about Eleanor in which we already had. It was nice however to have the same information, but presented in a different way.

Source 12
Humboldt County Library - secondary source.

Cook, Blanche. Eleanor Roosevelt. 1 ed. U.S.A.: Penguin books USA Inc, 1993.

This book presented our group with a lot of information about Eleanor’s accomplishments as an adult in civil rights. It didn’t focus on her childhood a whole lot, which was very covenant for our group.

Source 13
Humboldt County Library - secondary sources.

Adler, Bill. America's First Ladies. Boston: Hill House Publishers, 1987.

This book really helped our group because it was easy to compare Mrs. Wilson to Mrs. Roosevelt. Eleanor stood up against racism when Wilson did just the opposite.

Source 14
Internet - secondary source.

Black, Allida M. . "The Human rights years, 1945-1962." The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers. Department of History of the George Washington University. 14 Dec. 2005 .

This website went through the stages of human rights in the time of Eleanor Roosevelt. This helped our group to better understand the time period.

Source 15
Internet - secondary source.

"Eleanor Roosevelt." National Park Service. National Park Service. 12 Dec. 2005 .

This website helped our group to further understand the amount of service Eleanor Roosevelt did before the Civil Rights Act. This website helped our group to understand that without her contribution the outcome of the world today could be very different.
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