Attached on the right is a warm recollection of FDR by a woman who worked closely with the man for nearly thirty five years as political colleague, state governor appointee and labor secretary: Francis Perkins (1880 - 1965).
Those councilors who advised FDR on all matters African-American were popularly known as "the Black Brain Trust"...
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