Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray are the co-authors of First Ladies. The story revolves around the unlikely friendship of a black activist by the name of Mary McCloud Bethune and Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Eleanor and her mother-in-law invited Mary McCloud Bethune to a luncheon at their home in New York City. She is the only black person in the room. Eleanor was unaware that other white women at this luncheon would refuse to dine with a black woman. Bethune knew how it was going to go down but she went anyway thinking racism is their problem, not hers. When Franklin gets elected to be the President, Eleanor and Bethune start working on civil rights together. Eventually Bethune gets hired to work at the White House. Eventually the two women start sharing family secrets and are there to support each other through thick and thin. This is a very good book.
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