My Day was a newspaper column written by First Lady of the United States Eleanor Roosevelt six days a week from December 31,1935, to September 26,1962.
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10 Facts About My Day
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My Day's mother died suddenly in 1892 when ER was eight years old, her younger brother tragically died the following year, and her father died the year after that.
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My Day was not Eleanor Roosevelt's first experience in writing, and her literary agent, George T Bye, encouraged her to write the column.
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My Day is Roosevelt's six-day-a-week newspaper column written from December 30,1935, to September 26,1962.
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At its height in the 1950s, her entries reached 4,034,554 people, and My Day appeared in 90 newspapers across the United States.
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My Day specifically noted that fifty families were well on their way to a more abundant life in Des Moines, Iowa, specifically because of the WPA's efforts in housing reform, investment, and the mining camps.
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My Day discusses the men's success in the canning industry, the women's success in the knitting industry, her ventures to see students working and playing together, and the Board of Trade of Campobello Island's hall dance.
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My Day built and opened an African American college in Florida called The Daytona Beach Literary and Industrial School for Training Negro Girls, used her faith as a "weapon and shield, " and worked as the Director of the Division of Negro Affairs of the National Youth Administration from 1936 to 1943.
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My Day was concerned with incorporating American youth into the working world.
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