It’s dif­fi­cult to appraise the com­pli­cat­ed lega­cy of Franklin D. Roo­sevelt. His New Deal poli­cies are cred­it­ed for lift­ing mil­lions out of des­ti­tu­tion, and they cre­at­ed oppor­tu­ni­ties for strug­gling artists and writ­ers, many of whom went on to become some of the country’s most cel­e­brat­ed. But Roo­sevelt also com­pro­mised with racist south­ern sen­a­tors like Mississippi’s … Con­tin­ue read­ing F.D.R. Pro­pos­es a Sec­ond Bill of Rights: A Decent Job, Edu­ca­tion & Health Care Will Keep Us Free from Despo­tism (1944)