Dr Jonas Salk announced that he had successfully developed a cure for polio. The year before, there were tens of thousands of ...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt consistently ranks among the greatest presidents in U.S. history. He not only guided the country ...

In 1921 Roosevelt was diagnosed with polio and became paralyzed in each of his extremities (although he would eventually regain the use of his arms, his legs never fully recovered). While his mother ...

Roosevelt sought relief in the therapeutic waters of Warm Springs, Georgia. He soon bought the resort and turned it into a haven for polio sufferers. The Warm Springs Foundation, which first ...

An curved arrow pointing right. It is no secret now that Franklin D. Roosevelt had the unique challenge of hiding his crippling disease of what was believed to be polio throughout his terms as ...

The concerned citizens could include a member of Roosevelt’s family, a person who suffered from polio, a historian who has written a biography of FDR, an activist who works on behalf of rights ...

Randolph survived the polio virus, but her left arm was permanently ... facility as President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Then in the '80s, Randolph had to start using the iron lung at night when ...

When polio paralyzed her husband in 1921, Roosevelt gained even more autonomy. She became active while her husband went on a seven-year political hiatus. She led organizations such as the League ...

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens documents your change from an old, self-centered miser to a person concerned with ...