No one can make you feel inferior without your consent"- Elenor Roosevelt ...
Anna) Eleanor Roosevelt
October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962
American
She was an American political leader who used her stature as First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945 to promote her husband's (Franklin D. Roosevelt's) New Deal, as well as Civil Rights. She was the most activist First Lady the country had ever seen. After her husband's death in 1945 she built a career as an author-speaker, a New Deal Coalition advocate and spokesperson for human rights. She was a suffragist who worked hard to enhance the status of working women, opposing the Equal Rights Amendment) because it would hurt them. In the late 1940s she became a leader in supporting the United Nations, the United Nations Association and Freedom House. She was appointed by President Truman to the United States Delegation to the United Nations General Assembly, a position she held until 1953. She was chairman of the Human Rights Commission during the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which was adopted by the General Assembly on December 10, 1948. President Harry S. Truman called her the First Lady of the World in honor of her extensive human rights promotions.
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