Was Eleanor Roosevelt racism

Answer 1

Some claim Franklin D. Roosevelt was not racist. He actually helped out African Americans and made them a part of his cabinet, calling it the Black Cabinet. However, Roosevelt appointed former KKK member Hugo Black to the US Supreme Court. When Hugo was a senator in Alabama he infamously filibustered an anti-lynching bill. Hugo also wrote positively of Roosevelt in his memoirs, specifically pointing out that while the KKK was increasingly being frowned upon by the American public, Roosevelt considered that a positive on his part: "[Roosevelt's] best friends and supporters he had in the state of Georgia were strong members of that organization." Franklin signed Executive Order 9066, which sent 120,000 Japanese expatriates and American citizens of Japanese ancestry to be confined at internment camps, has been charged by critics as being racist. According to Bruce Bartlett in his 2008 book, Wrong on Race, Roosevelt segregated his African American and white servants by forbidding them from eating meals together at the White House. In "Devil in the Grove", there's an anecdote recounted by a young Thurgood Marshall:

Attorney General Francis Biddle phoned FDR to discuss the NAACP's involvement in a race case in Virginia. At Biddle's instruction, Marshall picked up an extension to listen in, only to hear FDR exclaim, "I warned you not to call me again about any of Eleanor's n*ggers. Call me one more time and you are fired." Black Olympic gold medal winner Jesse Owens claims that FDR snubbed him after his win, not reaching out to congratulate him in any way, while even Adolf Hitler sent him a commemorative photograph.

Answer 2

No, she was not black.

Answer 3

No