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The Woman's National Democratic Club Educational Foundation, 1526 New Hampshire Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20036, announces the publication of Democratic Women: An Oral History of the Woman's National Democratic Club by Jewell Fenzi and Allida Black. Fenzi chairs the WNDC Oral History/Publications program and Dr. Black is research professor of history at The George Washington University in Washington, DC.
The book is based on oral history interviews with Club members who helped formulate Democratic policies over the decades, and on interviews with family and friends of the founding members, most notably with the granddaughter of Eleanor Roosevelt (who supported the Club from Hyde Park before it was chartered in 1923), and with a Douglass College student activist who Roosevelt befriended and kept in touch with over the years.
The book is available from amazon.com; from Politics and Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse, 202/364-1919; and from the Woman's National Democratic Club, 202/232-7363 or .
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