Eleanor Roosevelt visits nursery school, Des Moines, Iowa, 1936

ID: 340 ~ Source: "[Eleanor Roosevelt at Works Progress Administration Negro Nursery School in Des Moines, Iowa, 1936].” Image. The National Archives: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Public Domain Photographs, 1882 - 1962. https://catalog.archives.gov/id/196167 (accessed December 15, 2017). ~ Date: June 8, 1936
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Eleanor Roosevelt is pictured visiting a nursery school created under the WPA for African-American children.

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By Eleanor Roosevelt
"The men work in the mines in winter and one or two days a week intermittently in summer. This Iowa farm land makes any one living in New York State envious, the soil is rich and free of stones. Each homestead has from three and a half to eight…