After the United States entered World War II, Roosevelt quickly moved to shore up African American support and silence foreign propaganda about the treatment of the negro in America. He ordered ...

Indeed, he initially advocated a balanced budget, precisely the wrong remedy for a crisis which would ultimately be ended only by the governmental spending of World War II. What Roosevelt could offer ...

"Today Mr Springmeir spoke over the loudspeaker about Roosevelt. Every teacher said ... she describes learning about the end of World War II. "Today is V.E. Day," she writes.