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1953 |
Volunteers for the American Association for the United Nations
Leads campaign against Bricker Amendment
Opposes House American Un-Activities Committee (HUAC) hearings
Offers to appear before McCarthy to challenge his accusations and tactics
Serves as honorary chair of ADA
Criticizes Dulles' leadership; critiques "brinkmanship"
Spends five weeks in Japan where she meets with Emperor Hirohito, government ministers, professors, students, women's groups, and those disabled by the atomic bomb
Travels to Hong Kong, Turkey, and Greece before visiting Yugoslavia to examine anti-Stalinist communism and interview Josef Broz (Tito)
Defends Ralph Bunche against HUAC accusations
Becomes close advisor to and fund-raiser for Stevenson
Malvina (Tommy) Thompson dies
Writes India and The Awakening East, UN: Today and Tomorrow, and "Some of My Best Friends Are Negro" |
1954 |
Champions Brown decision; urges quick integration of public schools
Debates Representative Martin Dies
Opposes Communist Control Act
Addresses WTUL national convention
Meets with Haile Selassie in Hyde Park
Writes Ladies of Courage (with Lorena Hickok), It Seems to Me, and "Negotiate with Russia: Never Use the H-Bomb." |
1955 |
Supports Montgomery Bus Boycott; appears at Madison Square Garden fund-raiser
Tours Israel, Japan, Hong Kong, Manilla, Angor Wat and Indonesia with Maureen Corr and Trude Lash, examining political and economic conditions
Attends World Federation of United Nations Associations conference
Writes United Nations: What You Should Know About It, "In the Service of Truth," and "Social Responsibility for
Individual Welfare" |
1956 |
Actively campaigns and fund-raises for Stevenson
Refuses to support John Kennedy's quest for Vice-President
Chairs Civil Rights Platform Committee for 1956 Democratic convention
Addresses 1956 Democratic Convention
Supports Powell amendment denying federal funds for construction of segregated schools
Debates Margaret Chase Smith on "Face the Nation"
Appears on "Meet the Press"
Writes "Salute to Montgomery," and "The Right to Vote" |
1957 |
Serves as unofficial member of Democratic Advisory Council
Travels to the Soviet Union for the New York Post and interviews Nikita Khrushchev
Dulles refuses her request to visit China
Visits the newly independent Morocco at request of the sultan
Actively supports Daisy Bates and the Little Rock Nine
Attacks Eisenhower's temerity over Little Rock Central High School
Urges rejection of jury trial amendment to Civil Rights Bill of 1957
Ku Klux Klan places a $25,000 bounty on her head
Challenges Democratic Party to adhere to its principles and challenge rather than follow Republican initiatives
Writes forewords to 300,000 New Americans: The Epic of a Modern Immigrant-Aid Service,
and Youth Aliyah: Past, Present and Future |
1958 |
Drives through the Klan to deliver workshop at Highlander on civil disobedience
Helps launch New York Committee for Democratic Voters (NYCDV)
Campaigns against Tammany Hall mayoral and gubernatorial candidates
Refuses to abandon Southern Conference Education Fund when it is labeled subversive
Intervenes on behalf of two African American boys sentenced in the "Kissing case"
Visits Russia with David and Edna Gurewitsch
Writes "Of Stevenson, Truman, and Kennedy," On My Own, the third installment of her autobiography, and "Values to Live By" |
1959 |
Begins television interview show, "Prospects of Mankind," which runs until fall 1962
Testifies before Congress in support of minimum wage
Debates Truman on liberals' role in Democratic Party
Visits Israel and Iran meeting with David Ben-Gurion and other leaders
Criticizes Kennedy campaign funding structure
Writes "Is America Facing World Leadership?," "What are We
For?," "Where I Get My Energy," and "Why I Am Opposed to 'Right to Work' Laws." |
1960 |
Chairs Draft Stevenson Committee
Attends World Federation of United Nations Associations meeting in Warsaw
Urges a Stevenson-Kennedy ticket at 1960 Democratic Convention
Campaigns for JFK after private meeting with him at Val-Kill and he appears at Harlem civil rights conference
Begins teaching foreign policy seminars for Brandeis
Defends choice of Robert Kennedy as Attorney General
Writes Growing Toward Peace, You Learn By Living, and "My Advice to the Next First Lady" |
1961 |
Urges Kennedy to appoint more women to executive federal positions
Serves on Tractors for Freedom Committee (to offset damage of Bay of Pigs raid) and the Advisory Council to the Peace Corps
Urges Kennedy to reject Taylor-Rostow Report and take concerns over Vietnam to the UN
Chairs President's Commission on the Status of Women (until her death in 1962)
Actively assists NYCDV in its successful campaign against Carmine DeSapio and Tammany slate
Writes The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt, Your Teens and Mine, "A Policy Toward Castro's Cuba," and "What Has Happened to the American Dream?" |
1962 |
Supports Freedom Riders
At CORE's request, chairs a commission of inquiry into attacks on civil rights workers
Tours Israel for fourth time, meeting with Israeli leaders
Writes Eleanor Roosevelt's Book of Common Sense Etiquette, "The Teaching Challenge of the Future," and Tomorrow Is Now and
forewords to Brutal Mandate: A Journey to South West Africa, The Long Shadow of Little Rock: A Memoir and This Is Our Strength: Selected Papers of Golda Meir
Dies from complications stemming from tuberculosis, November 7
Buried in Hyde Park, November 11 |
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