85 years ago – FDR creates the March of Dimes
(Thanks to history.com for this article with some background behind RI’s goal to eradicate polio) Franklin Delano Roosevelt, an adult victim of polio, founds the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, which he later renamed the March of Dimes Foundation, on January 3, 1938. A predominantly childhood disease in the early 20th century, polio wreaked havoc […]
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