The Junior League of Minneapolis member chaired and organized the U.S. Committee of UNICEF and in 1952 was co-chairman of the Citizens for Eisenhower organization. In 1953, President Eisenhower appointed her to succeed Eleanor Roosevelt as the U.S. representative to the United Nations Human Rights Commission. She also was a U.S. alternate representative and U.S. delegate to the United Nations…
Learn more about women’s role in the armed services during WWII at the exhibit presented by the National Women’s History Museum, Partners in Winning the War: American Women in World War II.
View the online exhibit presented by the National Women’s History Museum, Partners in Winning the War: American Women in World War II.
Women had rallied to the patriotic call in the first world war, throwing their energies and organizations into war relief efforts at home. Some young women even volunteered to support troops overseas, but few women actually entered the workforce during the nineteen months the United States was at war. When war came again in the 1940s, it was a different…
At a time when few Braille books and other Spanish language resources were available for the visually impaired in Mexico, the Junior League of Mexico City established an international center for the blind that, in more than two decades of JLMC’s support, would grow to become the most complete center for the blind in the Spanish-speaking world.
Not the only League member to achieve Hollywood stardom, Hamilton shared the limelight with Shirley Temple Black and Katharine Hepburn.
The Junior League of Atlanta funded the Atlanta Speech School to serve children and adults with speech, hearing, language, and learning disabilities. The school, which still thrives today, is a sterling example of the many hospitals and clinics that Leagues have either started or supported generously over the decades.
President Roosevelt appointed Mary Harriman to chair the Consumer Advisory Board (CAB) of the National Recovery Administration (NRA), the first government consumer rights group. She served in this position with distinction until her death on December 18, 1934.
