Reminiscences of Marion Dickerman, 1971.

Biographical Note

Educator

Scope and Contents

World War I; friendship with Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt; Todhunter School; Valkill Industries; Alfred E. Smith; opposition to Tammany Hall; Democratic conventions, 1924-32; reminiscences of Hyde Park, Campobello, Warm Springs; Eleanor Roosevelt: childhood, interest in women's suffrage and West Virginia mine workers, travels in Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois; 74th Congress, 1935-36; visiting royalty; international conferences; death of President Roosevelt; of Mrs. Roosevelt; recollections of Roosevelt children, Louis Howe, Sumner Welles, Marguerite Le Hand, Harry Hopkins, and many others

Subjects

• Democratic Party (U.S.)
• Dickerman, Marion, 1890-1983--Interviews.
• Educators--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• New Deal, 1933-1939.
• New York (State)--Politics and government--1865-1950.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962.
• Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.
• Roosevelt family.
• Starr, Mary Belle, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1981