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Course Title: (HIS140) FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT, GAMBIA, AND THE FORMATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS

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In January 1943, on his way to meet with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt stopped through Britain's West African colony of Gambia. The poverty and ill health he witnessed in "that hell-hole of yours" (as he referred to Gambia, speaking to Churchill) prompted Roosevelt to consider "an organization of United Nations".

Course Information: HIS140

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Every day, starting on 08/31/25 and ending on 08/31/25

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12:00am-12:00am EDT

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Donald Wright

Biography: DONALD WRIGHT, Distinguished Teaching Professor of History, Emeritus, SUNY-Cortland, has written books on African, African American, and Atlantic history. He has held Fulbright, NEH, and Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships and has lectured in universities on four continents.

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