Human Rights Forum
Tuesday, March 15 7:30 p.m.
hosted by Amnesty International Brooklyn
Barnes & Noble Bookstore
Park Slope
Brooklyn, NY
Dear Mrs. Roosevelt
Amnesty-Brooklyn to commemorate Brooklyn's Day of the Woman and highlight Amnesty's 'Stop the Violence against Women' by hosting special guest author and Roosevelt historian Cathy Knepper. Eleanor Roosevelt was one of America's most dominant & dynamic 20th Century women. Brooklyn, NY
Kathy Knepper Comes to Brooklyn to Discuss America’s Most Dominant 20th Century Woman.
No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or so distressed the comfortable." To commemorate Brooklyn’s Day of the Woman and to highlight Amnesty International’s "Stop the Violence Against Women" campaign, AI’s long-time Brooklyn chapter is delighted to announce that Cathy D. Knepper will appear March 15th at the Park Slope Barnes & Noble bookstore to discuss her life’s work and interest...Eleanor Roosevelt. As Clare Booth Luce remarked above, no 20th century woman had more policy influence on US affairs and more diplomatic influence on world affairs than Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt.
In her latest work, "Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: Letters to Eleanor Roosevelt Through Depression and War", Ms. Knepper portrays ER through the lenses of everyday Americans...men and woman who petitioned the First Lady with their Depression-Era, War-Time and Cold-War problems. Mrs. Roosevelt answered her voluminous mail daily and interceded innumerably.
"Dear Mrs. Roosevelt" is history from the grassroots and a testament to Eleanor Roosevelt’s influence on the American consciousness and her effectiveness in catalyzing social change.
‘Fans of Ken Burns would love this book’ a reader reports. "Dear Mrs. Roosevelt" is published by Carroll and Graf.
The Brooklyn chapter of Amnesty International has been championing human rights and working against abuse for 25+ years now. AI-Bk membership includes over 100 people through-out the Borough of Brooklyn. Info about AI-Bk, her activities around Brooklyn and New York and her present activity on specific human rights cases are all available 24/7 at www.aiBrooklyn.org.
Forty-year old Amnesty International is the world’s largest human rights organization with over 1½ million members and thousands of local groups - like Amnesty-Brooklyn - scattered around the globe. Executive Director Irene Kahn is the first woman, the first South Asian and the first Muslim to run an international human rights NGO. Ms. Kahn comments on the women’s campaign, "In the US, a woman is raped every 6 minutes & battered every 15 seconds; more than 15,000 women will be sold into sexual slavery in China and more than 7,000 Indian women will be murdered by their own families over dowries." Joining together, Amnesty groups around the world are focusing on trafficking, rape as a tool of war, violence against women and women’s human rights.