Photograph of Eleanor Roosevelt during visit to UNC Chapel Hill, 1942, Chapel Hill, N.C.

Photograph of Eleanor Roosevelt during visit to UNC Chapel Hill, 1942, Chapel Hill, N.C.

First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt visits UNC Chapel Hill

Eleanor Roosevelt (at head of table) sitting in a dining hall with students, faculty, and staff, during Roosevelt’s January 1942 visit to the University of North Carolina, as the keynote speaker at a jointly-sponsored International Student Service-Carolina Political Union conference on “Youth’s State in War Aims and Peace Plans.” Pictured seated from left are James B. Carey, CIO Secretary, Mrs. Carey, Frank Porter Graham, Lucy Darvin, CPU leader, Mrs. Roosevelt, Ridley Whitaker, Chairman of the CPU, Josephus Daniels, and Mrs. Roosevelt's secretary Malvina Thompson.

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Hugh Morton Photographs and Films #P0081, copyright Hugh Morton, 1942, North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library.

1942

Copyright is retained by the North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library.

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