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fandomhigh2018-12-02 09:47 pm
gobrookeyourself) wrote in fandomhigh2018-12-02 09:47 pm
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Badass Women You Should Know- Monday- 2nd period
Class was in the Danger Shop today, and Brooke was here, looking vaguely annoyed, with her hair in a messy bun. Because this morning when she'd tried to brush her teeth and found eggnog running from the faucet, she was not chancing a shower.
Anyway, they were on the White House lawn today. But a good White House. Like, from years and years ago. Not one that was tainted by the current level of grossness.
"Morning, everyone. Today we're going to talk about Eleanor Roosevelt. She was born in 1884 in New York City. Her uncle was President Theodore Roosevelt, her aunts were tennis champions, her parents were wealthy socialites. But they also had a lot of issues, including parental infidelity, the death of both parents, and of one of her younger brothers. Eleanor herself suffered from depression, and went to live with an aunt before attending finishing school in England. Then when she was 21, Eleanor married her fifth cousin, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, which is legal and there's a good amount of distance between all those genes but it still got some comments from people. They had six kids, but Eleanor apparently didn't think she was great at the motherhood thing, and after the last kid was born she found out her husband was cheating on her. So that kind of ended the romance part of that marriage, with him secretly continuing the affair until his death and her biographer saying she had a relationship with a female reporter. Probably for the best that they were more of just a political team.
"See, Franklin was involved in politics, and was a vice presidential running mate in 1920, but they lost. And a year later he developed a paralytic illness that left him in a wheelchair. Eleanor nursed him through it and made appearances for him when he couldn't. She also became a leader in the Democratic party in her own right, supporting worker's rights to get 48 hour work weeks and minimum wage. She also ended up starting a factory with some friends to give workers in her hometown more jobs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt became the 32nd President of the United States in 1933, and would serve four terms, before term limits were a thing. At first Eleanor didn't want to be First Lady because for previous women in the position they basically had to shut up and sit down and be background, aaaand Eleanor just didn't do that. Instead she held regular press conferences and had a radio show and had her own newspaper column. She made a goal to match her husband's salary in her work and appearances, and would donate it to charity. She worked for African American rights at a time when segregation was still very much a thing, and noted that the New Deal, which was supposed to kickstart things after the Great Depression, was preeeetty discriminatory against anyone who wasn't white. She was also apparently privately not into her husband sending Japanese-Americans into internment camps during World War II, but left it publicly at not giving into anti-Japanese sentiment. She encouraged women to move from blue collar jobs into getting white collar jobs and since she couldn't go to work in World War II she encouraged allowing the immigration of European refugee children and Jewish people to the US, and and although she secured refugee status for 83 Jews in 1940, she was prohibited from doing more, and her son wrote that it was the greatest regret of her life.
"Franklin Roosevelt died in 1945, and Eleanor didn't stop her work. She became an ambassador the United Nations General Assembly and was a chairperson for the new Commission for Human Rights, and eventually joined the National Advisory Committee of the Peace Corps. Her last position was on the Presidential Commission on the Status of Women, actually speaking out against the Equal Rights Amendment, because she believed that true equality came not in an amendment, but in actual recognition of gender differences and needs. In 1960 she was hit by a car, which started a whole set of health problems that resulted in her death by cardiac arrest.
"So today, we're going to go ahead and tour the White House. But it's the White House from 1933, so it's older, and if you feel like you need to like, burn sage and bless the place or whatever, you're fine. Also, it's the Danger Shop," Brooke assured them.
Anyway, they were on the White House lawn today. But a good White House. Like, from years and years ago. Not one that was tainted by the current level of grossness.
"Morning, everyone. Today we're going to talk about Eleanor Roosevelt. She was born in 1884 in New York City. Her uncle was President Theodore Roosevelt, her aunts were tennis champions, her parents were wealthy socialites. But they also had a lot of issues, including parental infidelity, the death of both parents, and of one of her younger brothers. Eleanor herself suffered from depression, and went to live with an aunt before attending finishing school in England. Then when she was 21, Eleanor married her fifth cousin, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, which is legal and there's a good amount of distance between all those genes but it still got some comments from people. They had six kids, but Eleanor apparently didn't think she was great at the motherhood thing, and after the last kid was born she found out her husband was cheating on her. So that kind of ended the romance part of that marriage, with him secretly continuing the affair until his death and her biographer saying she had a relationship with a female reporter. Probably for the best that they were more of just a political team.
"See, Franklin was involved in politics, and was a vice presidential running mate in 1920, but they lost. And a year later he developed a paralytic illness that left him in a wheelchair. Eleanor nursed him through it and made appearances for him when he couldn't. She also became a leader in the Democratic party in her own right, supporting worker's rights to get 48 hour work weeks and minimum wage. She also ended up starting a factory with some friends to give workers in her hometown more jobs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt became the 32nd President of the United States in 1933, and would serve four terms, before term limits were a thing. At first Eleanor didn't want to be First Lady because for previous women in the position they basically had to shut up and sit down and be background, aaaand Eleanor just didn't do that. Instead she held regular press conferences and had a radio show and had her own newspaper column. She made a goal to match her husband's salary in her work and appearances, and would donate it to charity. She worked for African American rights at a time when segregation was still very much a thing, and noted that the New Deal, which was supposed to kickstart things after the Great Depression, was preeeetty discriminatory against anyone who wasn't white. She was also apparently privately not into her husband sending Japanese-Americans into internment camps during World War II, but left it publicly at not giving into anti-Japanese sentiment. She encouraged women to move from blue collar jobs into getting white collar jobs and since she couldn't go to work in World War II she encouraged allowing the immigration of European refugee children and Jewish people to the US, and and although she secured refugee status for 83 Jews in 1940, she was prohibited from doing more, and her son wrote that it was the greatest regret of her life.
"Franklin Roosevelt died in 1945, and Eleanor didn't stop her work. She became an ambassador the United Nations General Assembly and was a chairperson for the new Commission for Human Rights, and eventually joined the National Advisory Committee of the Peace Corps. Her last position was on the Presidential Commission on the Status of Women, actually speaking out against the Equal Rights Amendment, because she believed that true equality came not in an amendment, but in actual recognition of gender differences and needs. In 1960 she was hit by a car, which started a whole set of health problems that resulted in her death by cardiac arrest.
"So today, we're going to go ahead and tour the White House. But it's the White House from 1933, so it's older, and if you feel like you need to like, burn sage and bless the place or whatever, you're fine. Also, it's the Danger Shop," Brooke assured them.
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But, even though she knew it was the Danger Shop, just out of curiosity, she had to duck into a bathroom at some point and turn on the faucet just to see what came out. If it turned out to be eggnog, she was going to be really impressed with this place's commitment to its insanity. Or, she supposed, Ms. Davis's commitment to programming detail, but she somehow felt if it was eggnog, it was more the island than their teacher, no offense to her, of course.
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