Question

What racial problems did Mrs. Roosevelt identify in American society? And why did she believe it was vital to solve these problems?

Answer 1

Civil rights is strongly believed by Eleanor Roosevelt as the litmus test for American democracy. Throughout World War II, she declared over and over that if African Americans did not have civil rights, the United States should not pretend to be a democracy. Mrs. Roosevelt constantly argued that basic human rights were schooling, housing , jobs and voting, that society had a spiritual and political duty to provide for its people, and that policies had to be established in order to establish a fair playing field.
Eleanor Roosevelt had already developed close ties to the African American community before World War II started. Her behind-the-scenes impact on the National Youth Administration, the Federal One Arts initiatives, the Homestead Subsistence Administration, and various ventures of the Works Progress Administration ( WPA) ensured that the New Deal would at least consider African American interests

On behalf of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the National Urban League, Howard University, Bethune Cookman College, the Southern Human Services Congress, Marian Anderson, the Equal Work Practices Commission, and the National Committee to Eradicate the Poll Tax, her intercession allowed her to forge a positive public profile as a civil rights leader

With disapproval of her rising as the war came to an end, the warnings about the future of Eleanor Roosevelt grew. Worried that white supremacy would be intensified by an unstable post-war economy, and that a failure to accept the sacrifices of African American veterans would promote African American distrust of whites, she repeatedly urged America to admit that the largest danger to American democracy was racial inequality. The United States must "avoid people generalising" and accept prejudices as racial propaganda