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Eleanor Roosevelt

Roosevelt spoke in Memorial Hall at UNC on January 31, 1942 to a capacity audience of about 2,000, closing a two-day conference on post-war planning run by the Carolina Political Union and the International Student Service. She also appeared at a birthday ball in Lenoir dining hall.

Source: Daily Tar Heel (DigitalNC): February 1, 1942, page 1

1884–1962 · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

9 works about Eleanor Roosevelt are indexed here.

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Life and Orange County connections

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June 11, 1935 Eleanor Roosevelt gives the University commencement address in Kenan Stadium Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke to about 9,000 people at the 140th Commencement, the largest crowd the Weekly knew of there outside a football game, and received an honorary doctor of laws. The paper had called her the first woman chosen as the University's commencement speaker. Honorary degrees also went to James King Hall, Rufus L. Patterson, Holland Thompson and Wallace E. Rollins. People: Frank Porter Graham, Josephus Daniels, James Hall, Rufus Lenoir Patterson, Holland ThompsonSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 14, 1935, p. 5
January 31, 1942 Eleanor Roosevelt speaks at Memorial Hall to close a post-war planning conference Eleanor Roosevelt spoke in Memorial Hall at UNC to a capacity audience of about 2,000 people, closing a two-day conference on post-war planning sponsored by the Carolina Political Union and the International Student Service. She warned the audience that there was no going back to normalcy. People: Frank Porter GrahamSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, February 1, 1942, p. 1
January 31 to February 2, 1950 Eleanor Roosevelt gives the Weil Lectures on the United Nations at the university Eleanor Roosevelt, a United States delegate to the UN General Assembly, opened the university's annual Weil Lectures on American Citizenship before about 1,200 students in Memorial Hall, introduced by Governor W. Kerr Scott. Her three talks on the United Nations ran through February 2, and the state's League of Women Voters chapters planned a luncheon for her that day. People: W. Kerr Scott, R. B. HouseSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 2, 1950, p. 1
January 12, 1958 Eleanor Roosevelt spends a day in Chapel Hill for the United Nations Eleanor Roosevelt came to Chapel Hill for an organizing conference of the Collegiate Council for the United Nations, co-sponsored by the Orange County chapter of the American Association for the United Nations. She held a press conference in Graham Memorial, met with student desegregation committees from North Carolina campuses, spoke to the student UN congress and gave a public address in Memorial Hall that night.Search the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 16, 1958, p. 4

People named in the same events

People named in the same dated entries as Eleanor Roosevelt, those sharing the most entries first. Each line links one of the shared entries in the chronology, where its source is cited. A shared entry shows these people in the same event, not how well they knew each other.

Frank Porter Graham 2 entries, including Eleanor Roosevelt gives the University commencement address in Kenan Stadium (June 11, 1935)
Holland Thompson 1 entry: Eleanor Roosevelt gives the University commencement address in Kenan Stadium (June 11, 1935)
Josephus Daniels 1 entry: Eleanor Roosevelt gives the University commencement address in Kenan Stadium (June 11, 1935)
R. B. House 1 entry: Eleanor Roosevelt gives the Weil Lectures on the United Nations at the university (January 31 to February 2, 1950)
W. Kerr Scott 1 entry: Eleanor Roosevelt gives the Weil Lectures on the United Nations at the university (January 31 to February 2, 1950)

Indexed works

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Danziger's: photographs (Chapel Hill Historical Society)

1950

Four photographs of Danziger's, dated 1950 to 1977: an advertisement and sign, Eleanor Roosevelt inside with Charles Long, Anne Deal, John Sanders and William Geer, owner Edward Danziger with staff in the gift shop, and the Old World Gift Shop storefront.

Included because: Their name appears in the record.

CH Historical Society

Eleanor Roosevelt visit to UNC, January 31, 1942

Morton, Hugh M. · 1942

Eleanor Roosevelt talks with a group of men in a room whose walls carry maps or plans during her visit to UNC on 31 January 1942. She came as keynote speaker for a conference on youth and war aims sponsored jointly by the International Student Service and the Carolina Political Union. Hugh Morton, black-and-white sheet film.