Lorena Hickok Biography
Born March 7, 1893
East Troy, Wisconsin
Died May 1, 1968
Rhinebeck, New York
News journalist, investigator
"What I want you to do is to go out around the country and look this thing [New Deal programs] over. I don't want statistics from you. I just want your own reaction, as an ordinary citizen."
Harry Hopkins speaking to Lorena Hickok from One Third of a Nation
Although her adult life was closely associated with Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962; see entry), wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945; served 1933–45; see entry), Lorena Alice Hickok independently overcame in-grained sexual discrimination in the male-dominated field of newspaper journalism. She became an outstanding reporter and investigative writer.
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