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Exhibit Opening Discussion:
BLACK AMERICANS, CIVIL RIGHTS, AND THE ROOSEVELTS, 1932-1962
June 3, 2023 at 3PM ET
LINK: youtube.com/watch?v=f84xHnLFGYw

The FDR Presidential Library presents a special exhibit opening program at 3:00 p.m. on June 3, 2023, with panelists including FDR Library Trustee and Director of the Roosevelt House Institute for Public Policy at Hunter College, Basil Smikle PhD and President & CEO of the New York Urban League Arva Rice.

00:00 Welcome by William Harris, Director of the FDR Presidential Library
02:52 Lieutenant Governor Anthony Delgado
07:41 Overcoming racism
10:33 Introducing of the panelists
13:41 Thank you and welcome from FDR Library Trustee and Director of the Roosevelt House Institute for Public Policy at Hunter College, Basil Smikle PhD
17:40 Jill Watts on themes for putting exhibit together
19:24 The Black Cabinet
20:40 Arva Rice on Urban League
23:24 The Great Migration
26:01 Jim Crow south and north
28:18 Roosevelt and the New Deal
31:01 Mary McLeod Bethune and Eleanor Roosevelt
35:24 Urban League presidents and U.S. presidents relationship
40:38 Policing
42:22 Supreme Court
48:50 Black press
51:49 The Black Cabinet inside the government
56:58 Takeaways from the exhibit