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Run Time: 01:23:27 The historian, author, and educator responsible for The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers is guest lecturer for the Hayes Presidential Center’s annual Hayes Lecture on the Presidency. Allida M. Black, Ph.D., shares thoughts on “The Other Leaders in the White House: First Ladies from Lucy Hayes to Michelle Obama.” Black is a research professor of history at The George Washington University and serves as managing director of the Allenswood Group, a collaborative founded to empower individuals and strengthen democracy through education. She is editor emeritus and editorial advisory board chair of The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers - a project she designed to preserve, teach and apply Eleanor Roosevelt’s writings and discussions of human rights and democratic politics. Black also is author of more than a half dozen books including First Ladies of the United States of America and currently is writing a political biography of Eleanor Roosevelt. Support for Knowledge Stream is provided, in part, by a generous gift from The Appold Family Charitable Trust.
