By: Dr. Rosemary Ann Blanchard

Dr. Rosemary Ann Blanchard — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:15:01 +0000

My name is Rosemary Ann Blanchard. I am an Associate Professor of Education at California State University Sacramento. I am delighted and interested to learn that the planned F.D.R. Memorial, commemorating Roosevelt’s “Four Freedoms” address to Congress and the continuing impact of the Four Freedoms as unifying and organizing principles for global as well as national human rights. The American imprint on the development of human rights on a global scale from the end of World War II until the start of the Cold War is an area of great interest to me, not only historically but also pedagogically. I urge you to involve the schools and American children and youth in your plans to build a momentum of support for this memorial and its funding. Encourage young people to research and write about the Four Freedoms speech, the era it arose out of, it’s impact on the Atlantic Charter and the United Nations Charter, what this moment in American history means to the United States at our current moment in time. I think there is a great need to teach our children that human rights are an American idea, not something to resist as “foreign.” I am convinced that you could generate interest in your memorial that would help to support your fundraising.

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By: Dr. Rosemary Ann Blanchard