Date: Wednesday, October 26, 2011. 12:00 PM.
Location: SLAC National Accelerator Lab, Panofsky Auditorium. 2575 Sand Hill Rd, Menlo Park, CA 94025
Brigid O’Farrell, Independent Scholar at Mills College will speak on:"She Was One of Us: Eleanor Roosevelt and the American Worker"Brigid O’Farrell will discuss her newest book telling, for the first time, how Eleanor Roosevelt, one of the most admired and most controversial women of the 20th century, became committed to workers and their unions and how she translated that commitment into action.O’Farrell will trace the First Lady’s steps from the tenements of New York City to the White House to the United Nations where she worked to secure workers rights in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Location: SLAC National Accelerator Lab, Panofsky Auditorium. 2575 Sand Hill Rd, Menlo Park, CA 94025
Brigid O’Farrell, Independent Scholar at Mills College will speak on:"She Was One of Us: Eleanor Roosevelt and the American Worker"Brigid O’Farrell will discuss her newest book telling, for the first time, how Eleanor Roosevelt, one of the most admired and most controversial women of the 20th century, became committed to workers and their unions and how she translated that commitment into action.O’Farrell will trace the First Lady’s steps from the tenements of New York City to the White House to the United Nations where she worked to secure workers rights in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.