My Day was a newspaper column that was written by first lady Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was the First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945. She supported the New Deal policies of her husband, distant cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and became an advocate for civil rights. After her husband's death in 1945, Roosevelt continued to be an international...

 six days a week from 1935 to 1962. In her column, she discussed issues such as race, women, and key events (Pearl Harbor

Pearl Harbor

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, Prohibition

Prohibition

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, H Bomb, etc.). This column allowed Mrs. Roosevelt to spread her ideas and thoughts to millions of Americans and give them a new view on the issues they faced every day. George T. Bye

George T. Bye

George Thurman Bye was the Literary agent of Frank Buck and Eleanor Roosevelt. A prominent figure in the literary world before World War II, Bye rose to fame as the agent of people in the news and amateur authors with something timely or sensational to say, so called “stunt books”.-Early life and...

, Eleanor Roosevelt's literary agent

Literary agent

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, encouraged her to write the column.

"My Day" influenced many Americans. Women felt empowered by hearing Eleanor Roosevelt's opinion. She also gave African Americans a sense of hope for the future.

External links

• My Day, PBS. Retrieved January 4, 2008.
• "My Day" Project, George Washington University
  George Washington University
  The George Washington University is a private, coeducational comprehensive university located in Washington, D.C. in the United States...
  
  . Retrieved January 4, 2009.