American Decades
"Hot Lunches for a Million School Children"
Speech
By: Ellen S. Woodward
Date: c. 1939
Source: Woodward, Ellen S. "Hot Lunches for a Million School Children." Available at the New Deal Network online at http://newdeal.feri.org/texts/500.htm; website homepage: http://newdeal.feri.org (accessed March 17, 2003).
About the Author: Ellen S. Woodward (1887–1971) was born in Oxford, Mississippi. The daughter of a Congressman, young Ellen lived in Washington and developed an interest in politics and public affairs. In the 1930s she became an assistant administrator of the Works Progress Administration and later director of work relief programs for women. As a leader among women's clubs and political groups in the United States, she was an effective advocate for economic security for women and children.
Introduction
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1930's Medicine and Health Primary Sources
- Opinions on Mental Health
- Radio Address on a Program of Assistance for the Crippled
- "Preventing Disease in the Nation"
- "Children Hurt at Work"
- The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment
- Morale: The Mental Hygiene of Unemployment
- "Dear Mr. Hopkins"
- Prenatal Care for Rural Poor
- Consumer Protection Expands
- "Surgery Used on the Soul-Sick; Relief of Obsessions is Reported"
- March of Dimes Poster
- Shadow on the Land
- "Dust"
- Alcoholics Anonymous
- "Hot Lunches for a Million School Children"
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
