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2. Lorena Hickok to Harry Hopkins, 1933: A woman reporter views prairie hard times
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Beasley, Maurine Hoffman (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1982
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11848
- Journal Title:
- Montana: The Magazine of Western History
- Journal Title Details:
- 32(2) : 58-66
- Notes:
- Online via keyword search of UI Library e-Catalog., Focus on the career of Lorena Hickok, a former newspaperwoman with the title of chief investigator for Harry L. Hopkins, head of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration during the Depression and intimate friend of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. This article emphasizes her striking coverage during during a trip to the Midwest during late 1933, a crucial period of agrarian hardship and unrest. Her reporting was described as being given serious consideration by President Roosevelt and others in Washington, D.C.