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The Eleanor Roosevelt Program 1950-1951. Radio Conference, June 2013. Anya Luscombe PhD. Outline. Background Eleanor Roosevelt and Media The Eleanor Roosevelt Program (Radio) Themes. Eleanor Roosevelt. 1884-1962 Theodore Roosevelt Franklin Roosevelt First Lady 1933-1945
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The Eleanor Roosevelt Program 1950-1951 Radio Conference, June 2013 Anya Luscombe PhD
Outline • Background • Eleanor Roosevelt and Media • The Eleanor Roosevelt Program (Radio) • Themes
Eleanor Roosevelt • 1884-1962 • Theodore Roosevelt • Franklin Roosevelt First Lady 1933-1945 • After WWI: Delegate to United Nations • Activist: racial equality, children’s rights, women’s rights, world peace
Media • Women-only press conferences • Pioneered use of mass media: columns, radio, TV, books Radio • Started 1932 • ”focus on traditional women’s issues relating to domesticity” (Loviglio 2005, p30) • Pan-AmericanCoffeeHour: more politics • 1948-49: program with Anna
Radio Program 1950-51 • Radio in the 1950s • NBC Radio: October 1950 - August 1951 (233 programs) • Roosevelt Study Center Middelburg/FDR Library >20, 40, 60, 80, 100, 120, 140, 160, 180, 200, 220 >1, 2, 3, 8, 42, 69, 81, 122, 134, 144, 168, 208, 233
Format • Hosted with Elliott • Q&A • Guests, e.g. John Steinbeck, Bob Hope, Tallulah Bankhead, Lester Markel, Neil Lang & Bob Neil • Range of societal and political issues • Women in business • Hotel management
Audience - women • Audience • Fred Allen, producer: “You are a woman and much better at telling women.” • Eleanor Roosevelt: “Women love to be told by men and they like men to feel they’ve had the chance and then work it round.” • Sponsor and listener
Audiencecont. • August 1951 (program 233) • Public affairs • Foreignaccents
References Programs: The Eleanor Roosevelt Program, NBC Radio 1950-1951 Program number 1, 2, 3, 8, 20, 40, 42, 60, 69, 80, 81, 100, 122, 134, 144, 168, 208, 233 Beasley, M. (1987). Eleanor Roosevelt and the Media. A Public Quest for Self-Fulfillment. Urbana, Chicago: University of Illinois Press. Black, A. (1996). Casting Her Own Shadow. New York, Chichester: Columbia University Press. C-Span (2003). Eleanor Roosevelt and the Media, August 26, 2010. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/296295-1 Kearney, J. (1968). Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. The evolution of a reformer. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Loviglio, J. (2005). Radio's Intimate Public. Network Broadcasting and Mass-Mediated Democracy. Minneapolis, London: University of Minnesota Press. Roosevelt, Eleanor (1958). On My Own. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers. Roosevelt, Elliot., & Brough, J. (1977). Mother R. Eleanor Roosevelt's Untold Story.New York: G.P. Putnam'sSons. Rotherbuhler, E. & McCourt, T. (2002). Radio RedefinesItself, 1947-1962. In Hilmes, M. & Loviglio J. (eds) Radio Reader. Essays in the Cultural History of Radio. New York, London: Routledge. pp367-387. Wamboldt, H. J. (1952). A Descriptive and Analytical Study of the Speaking Career of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt.University of Southern California. Wang, J.H. (2002). “The case of the Radio-Active Housewife” Relocating Radio in the Age of Television. In Hilmes, M. & Loviglio J. (eds) Radio Reader. Essays in the Cultural History of Radio. New York, London: Routledge. pp343-366. Photos: http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/archives/collections/photographs.html