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To learn more, click here. About Us. What Are Human Rights? Champions of Human Rights. Mahatma Gandhi. The groundbreaking first lady died in in New York City. Known as a shy child, Eleanor experienced tremendous loss at a young age: Her mother died in and her father followed suit two years later, leading to her being placed under the care of her maternal grandmother.
Eleanor was sent to Allenswood Academy in London when she was a teenager — an experience that helped draw her out of her shell. After Eleanor became reacquainted with her distant cousin Franklin in , the two embarked on a clandestine relationship.
They were engaged in and, over the objections of Franklin's mother, Sara, were married on March 17, , a ceremony that featured Theodore walking his niece down the aisle. As her husband achieved success in politics, Eleanor found her own voice in public service, working for the American Red Cross during World War I.
She also exerted herself more prominently after Franklin suffered a polio attack in that essentially left him in need of physical assistance for the rest of his life.
When Franklin took office as president in , Eleanor dramatically changed the role of the first lady. Not content to stay in the background and handle domestic matters, she gave press conferences and spoke out for human rights, children's causes and women's issues, working on behalf of the League of Women Voters.
Along with penning her own newspaper column, "My Day," Eleanor focused on helping the country's poor, stood against racial discrimination and, during World War II, traveled abroad to visit U. She served in the role of first lady until Franklin Roosevelt's death on April 12, Following her husband's passing, Eleanor told interviewers that she didn't have plans for continuing her public service. For example, just a few years earlier, Lou Henry Hoover wife to President Herbert Hoover had abandoned her feminist activism when her husband was inaugurated in Over the 12 years that her husband was president, Roosevelt held press conferences.
The protest was met with violence, first from D. In , after FDR assumed the presidency, the Bonus Army marched again, but this time, Eleanor visited with the veterans to discuss their concerns, share a meal, and bond over song. She ultimately offered them a promise of stable jobs within the newly established Civilian Conservation Corps CCC , which appeased most of the protestors. History remembers Eleanor fondly now for her outspokenness, but this was often criticized by her contemporaries, particularly when it was about civil rights.
In , she attended an Alabama conference on human welfare where the audience had been segregated by race. She purposely sat down on the black side, and when asked by police to move, placed her chair in the middle of the aisle, between the segregated sections.
Eleanor disagreed with the order and spoke out publicly against Asian-American prejudice, to heavy criticism. She was no longer the First Lady of the United States. However, her work was not finished. In December of the same year, President Harry S. During her time in this role, she led the creation of an international legal document that would outline the rights and freedoms of all humans— the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
In , President John F. Roosevelt to become increasingly active in politics in part to help him maintain his interests but also to assert her own personality and goals. Upon moving to the White House in , Eleanor Roosevelt informed the nation that they should not expect their new first lady to be a symbol of elegance, but rather "plain, ordinary Mrs.
In , Mrs. Roosevelt became the first, First Lady to hold her own press conference. In an attempt to afford equal time to women--who were traditionally barred from presidential press conferences--she allowed only female reporters to attend. In protest, Mrs. Roosevelt resigned her membership in the DAR. Throughout Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency, Eleanor traveled extensively around the nation, visiting relief projects, surveying working and living conditions, and then reporting her observations to the President.
She was called "the President's eyes, ears and legs" and provided objective information to her husband. Roosevelt made certain that the President did not abandon the goals he had put forth in the New Deal. She also exercised her own political and social influence;. She became an advocate of the rights and needs of the poor, of minorities, and of the disadvantaged. The public was drawn in by the First Lady's exploits and adventures which she recounted in her daily syndicated column, "My Day".
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