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Ellen S. Woodward (1887-1971) was touted as Roosevelts second most powerful woman appointee. Among American women only Eleanor Roosevelt and Labor Department Secretary Frances Perkins could claim more elevated roles in the circle of FDRs administration.This long overdue biography of such a remarkable leader traces Woodwards odyssey from the parlors of her Mississippi clubwomen associates to a position as director of womens work relief under three successive New Deal agencies from 1933 to 1938.Swain depicts Woodward in the vital roles she took in alleviating the working womans plight. Particularly rich is Swains account of Woodwards attempts to remain vital in policymaking during the Truman era, when Eleanor Roosevelt was no longer the central figure of the womens coterie.Without minimizing the limitations of the programs under Woodwards aegis, Swain gives ample attention to the operation and internal dynamics of her ambitious projects. Though some of Woodwards project proved to be disappointing, others became rich legacies for programs in later administrations.
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Ellen S. Woodward : New Deal Advocate for Women Twentieth-century America Series
author
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Swain, Martha H.
publisher
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University Press of Mississippi
isbn10 | asin
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0878057560
print isbn13
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9780878057566
ebook isbn13
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9780585217512
language
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English
subject
Woodward, Ellen S.--(Ellen Sullivan) , Women social reformers--United States--Biography, New Deal, 1933-1939.
publication date
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1995
lcc
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HQ1413.W68S93 1995eb
ddc
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361.7/4/092
subject
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Woodward, Ellen S.--(Ellen Sullivan) , Women social reformers--United States--Biography, New Deal, 1933-1939.
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Ellen S. Woodward
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Twentieth-Century America Series Dewey W. Grantham, General Editor
Ellen Sullivan Woodward, sometime in the late 1920s (Courtesy Albert Y. Woodward, Jr.)
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Ellen S. Woodward
New Deal Advocate for Women
Martha H. Swain
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Copyright 1995 by the University Press of Mississippi All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America
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The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Swain, Martha H. Ellen S. Woodward: New Deal advocate for women / by Martha H. Swain. p. cm.(Twentieth-century America series) Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-87805-756-0 (alk. paper) 1. Woodward, Ellen S. (Ellen Sullivan) 2. Women social reformers United StatesBiography. 3. New Deal, 1933-1939. I. Title. II. Series. HQ1413.W68S93 1995 361.7'4'092dc20 [B] 94-35499 CIP
British Library Cataloging-in-Publication data available
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With love for Margaret and Mimi
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Contents
Preface
ix
Acknowledgments
xiii
Abbreviations
xvii
1. There's No Town Like Louisville: 1906-1926
1
2. Are We Sold on Mississippi?: 1926-1932
18
3. This New Federal Relief: 1933-1935
38
4. Women's Right to Work Relief: 1935-1936
54
5. Women at Work: The WPA Women's Projects
79
6. Women's Work and the Four Arts: 1937-1938
104
7. Security for the Home and Family: 1939-1946
134
8. A New Deal Woman in Wartime Washington: 1939-1945
156
9. I Have Not Had an Easy Time: The FSA, 1946-1953
181
Essay on Sources
199
Notes
209
Index
269
Page ix
Preface
People who know that I have been writing a biography of Ellen Sullivan Woodward may read this book and cite it less as biography and more as another New Deal administrative history. That is why it bears the title it does. After Woodward was widowed, her work absorbed her life. Even her social and professional organization contacts were work-related. She was a workaholic because, as a conscientious official, she had little choice but to master the details of her agencies: first, the Mississippi State Board of Development (1926-1933); then three successive New Deal work-relief programs (1933-1938); followed by the Social Security Board (1938-1946); and, finally, the Office of International Relations of the Federal Security Agency (1946-1953). Upon leaving the Works Progress Administration for the Social Security Board, she wrote a friend, "It has been hard to sever the old ties for I have simply lived my work for the past five and a half years. "1
Anyone who has ever "worked" RG 69 at the National Archives, the records of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, the Civil Works Administration, and the Works Progress Administration knows that one could spend a lifetime examining the manuscripts of the Division of Women's and Professional Projects alone. During all the spring and summer breaks I spent over a period of ten years delving into RG 69, I barely touched the surface. Under the direction of Richard Crawford and Aloha South, however, I have obtained maximum results for my time and am grateful to them for their patience and expert's knowledge of the holdings. The day-by-day records are a maze of details and administrivia that is exasperating for a researcher. How much more frustrating must they have been to relief officials? Those readers who believe this study is needlessly cluttered with too many routine matters must take it on faith that I have omitted much more than I have included.
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