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(1) Delegation of Italian Dressmakers, Local 89, ILGWU, White House, 1934. Justice, April 1, 1934, UNITE Archives, Kheel Center, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

(2) Eleanor Roosevelt and A. Philip Randolph, President of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Fair Employment Practice Rally, 1946, Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, NY.

(3) A. Philip Randolph Letter, August 5, 1943, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Papers, A. Philip Randolph Papers, Box 25, March on Washington, Folder N-S, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

(4) ER speaking at a union meeting with Rose Pesotta, Vice President, ILGWU, behind her, 1943. UNITE Archives, Kheel Center, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

(5) American Federationist 48 (March 1941): 14-15. Address to Local 3 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers at Leviton Manufacturing Company strike headquarters. George Meany Memorial Archives, Silver Spring, MD.

(6) ER speaks to members of the CIO, AFL, and unaffiliated unions at the Hudson Shore Labor School, 1942. Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, NY.

(7) See A World Made New, Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Mary Ann Glendon, Random House, New York, 2001.

(8) UN DOC E/CN.4 Summary Record 66, page 4, in The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Origins, Drafting & Intent, Johannes Morsink, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999, 173-174.

(9) ER with Bessie Hillman, Vice Presidnet, and Jacob Potofsky, President, Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, and Walter Reuther, President, United Automobiles Workers 1957, Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, NY.

(10) Letter to Phil Murray, May 19, 1952, CIO Secretary-Treasurer's Collection, Box 3, Folder Correspondence Mrs. Roosevet 1951-1952, Wayne State University, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Detroit, MI.

(11) Excerpt, Eleanor Roosevelt's Speech, Almagamated Clothing Workers of America Twentieth Biennial Convention Proceedings, March 21-25, 1956, Kheel Center, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

(12) Letter to Walter Reuther, March 5, 1954, UAW President’s Office - Walter P. Reuther Collection, Box 464, Folder 1, Wayne State University, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Detroit, MI.

(13) “Local Sponsors Teen-agers’ Program,” Local 1199 Retail Drug Employees, NYC. Education and News, AFL-CIO, 1957. George Meany Memorial Archieves, Silver Spring, MD.

(14) Eleanor Roosevelt Speech, AFL-CIO Convention Proceedings, 1961, George Meany Memorial Archives, Silver Spring, MD.




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