1930's Lifestyles and Social Trends | "Subsistence Farmsteads"

Magazine article

By: Eleanor Roosevelt

Date: April 1934

Source: Roosevelt, Eleanor. "Subsistence Farmsteads." Forum 91, April 1934, 199–201. Available online at http://newdeal.feri.org/texts/532.htm; website home page: http://newdeal.feri.org (accessed August 9, 2002).

About the Author: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962), niece of President Theodore Roosevelt, married her distant cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1905. Eleanor assisted her polio-stricken husband as he served as governor of New York and president of the United States (served 1933–1945). Following her husband's death, as a delegate to the United Nations, Mrs. Roosevelt was chairperson of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights and led the drafting and adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948).

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