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By Maurine H. Beasley

This ebook offers the tale of Ruby A. Black, a feminist who broke new floor for ladies in Washington journalism within the Twenties and Thirties as a correspondent for a Puerto Rican newspaper and the 1st biographer of Eleanor Roosevelt. It deals entry to the key correspondence that exhibits how Black used her friendship with Roosevelt to boost the political occupation of Luis Muñoz Marín, Puerto Rico's first elected governor. The ebook describes Black’s attempt, finally unsuccessful, to turn into either a well-regarded journalist and a political operative within the nation’s capital, a feat quite tough for a girl. It contends Black’s closeness to Roosevelt proved either a aid and a situation to Black’s stature as a journalist.

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