End of days

After Franklin died on April 12, 1945 Eleanor didn’t die as well she kept on working till her last days. She worked on JFK’s campaign and was one of the main spokes women of the United Nations. She won many awards to honor her work for herself and for the country while in office and after. She received 35 honorary awards. Doctor of Humane Letters, Doctor of Laws, LL.D., Nobel Peace Prize, and United Nations Human Rights Prizes just being some of the awards she received for her work. She was such a loving, humble, and noble person. Battling aplastic anemia and tuberculosis, she nevertheless continued to speak out on issues relating to racial justice, world peace, and women's rights. She never stopped working no matter how tired or sick she was. She just loved helping people. That’s why her death on November 7, 1962 was such a tragic death. That day America lost one of its greatest leaders. It truly was a lost. She was buried side by side with her husband in Hyde Park in New York. After her death she was still winning awards in her name. She has parks, schools, statues, memorials, and etc all in her name. A lot of America is different because of her works and everything she believed and accomplished. She helped us with woman’s rights, the middle classed people with financial problems, discrimination, racism, and many more. If there was one person in American history that I was able to meet it would really be Eleanor she’s such an inspiration that when you believe in something it can really happen.

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Pearl Harbor

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December 7, 1941 is a day many will never forget. That’s the day Pearl Harbor was bombed by the Japan. President Roosevelt was trying to stay away from the war and just try and be neutral. But after Japan did the bombing he couldn’t stay like that and the United States joined the war. That attack took place at dawn in Hawaii. More than 24,000 soldiers were killed in the attack. A writer from “No Ordinary Times” he quoted how the news of the attacks were taken by the Roosevelt’s. Eleanor was coming from a luncheon and she overheard some of FDR’s conversation and she knew that something big happened and Franklin was going to take drastic action against this attack. Since it was a sneak attack the United States took a little while to fully recover. But, FDR knew that if he didn’t act fast it wouldn’t be to long when Germany would attack as well. So he tried to come with the comeback as soon as possible. They took the fast actions they could. Franklin took longer than Eleanor. She didn’t waste any time he went on her radio station and informed the entire country about the attacks and asked for all the support possible from everyone. Franklin later that day went on TV to tell the nation of the crisis and will need all the support from everyone. The country quickly responded and they moved right in to fight. Around two days later Eleanor was spotted in the South Pacific supporting all the troops to show them that se was behind them 100%.

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United Nations

As we know from previously discoveries Eleanor was the First Lady that was the most active in office and the longest serving. But, after her husband came out of office Eleanor didn’t stop working. She was one of the founders of one of the world’s biggest organizations and that’s the United Nations. The U.N is where all the countries, continents, and all those politicians meet and discuss the worlds concerns and issues. “She served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations under both the Truman and Kennedy administrations. She also served as head of the United Nations Human Rights Commission, helping to draft the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights.” As quoted in the passage you can see that Eleanor was the perfect candidate to be the leader for them. Eleanor wanted a place where all the leaders can discuss their issues with each other without necessarily going to war. They had three main goals in mind and they were:
*To foster a wider appreciation of and commitment to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights through education and a media campaign;
*To further codify the protection of international human rights through the development and ratification of legal instruments, including the Convention on Elimination of All forms of Discrimination Against Women and the Convention on the Rights of the Child; and
*To promote more effective international institutions for the protection of basic human rights and freedoms by advocating the establishment of a permanent International Criminal Court and the strengthening of the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. The U.N’s success continues to go on till today will continue to go on till the end of time.

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Woman's Rights Movement

Eleanor was a strong believer in woman's right. She always tried her best to do everything possible to make the woman have more power in politics, in basically everything. By the time Eleanor took action other woman as well were working to make the movement possible. She worked with many programs as in: National Consumers League, International Congress of Working Women, and the Women's International League of Peace and Freedom. She didn’t really know how to campaign because she personally had never been in the woman suffrage. But after Roosevelt started supporting the woman suffrage. Eleanor backed him up with the campaign. Not knowing that she will one day be one of the biggest impacts of the woman’s rights movement. She was really committed to her work with the woman’s right she wanted woman to be just as equal to any man. Because no one should be discriminated against just because of their gender. The world war was one of the biggest impacts in woman’s rights movement. The women were discriminated against saying they couldn’t help. There came a point where they didn’t care anymore because they needed all the help they could take. After that woman had a lot more freedom but it still wasn’t enough so Eleanor fought with many others to end that. This did help because today a woman could do anything a man could do as in working, sports, etc.

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Great Depression

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The Great Depression was a big issue in the life of Eleanor. When Franklin went into office in 1933. The depression was still going on. Unemployment had gone up from 8 to 15 million. Thousands of people were out in the streets looking for jobs to feed themselves and sum a whole family. Times were very difficult. That’s when Eleanor came into the picture as the first lady of the world. She actually cared about the people and wanted to help them. People used to write letters to her asking for help. There was so many letters they even wrote a book on all of them, it was called “Dear Mrs. Roosevelt”. She did a lot of deeds to help out the people. Eleanor and Franklin made a plan for the country and it was “The New Deal”.

The New Deal was a promise to the people of America that everything will be better and would go back to normal. Of course like every other plan or program it takes time. It had many goals as in: banking reform laws, emergency relief programs, work relief programs, and agricultural programs. Then the new deal had new plans and it included union protection programs, the Social Security Act, and programs to aid tenant farmers and migrant workers. The New Deal is why today we have unions, benefits, and all those other protection for the employers so we could never suffer a great depression again. That deal is all thank to Eleanor and her ambition to work for the peoples needs.

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http://lcweb2.loc.gov/learn/features/timeline/depwwii/newdeal/newdeal.html

Lesbian??

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Eleanor Roosevelt’s sexuality was always very questionable. After Franklin’s well known affair, Eleanor didn’t feel the same towards him. It was said that after the affair she really didn’t love him anymore and she was just in the marriage for her kids and the public eye. Eleanor always had a special thing for women. She was known as the first lady of the world and she would make rallies for women all of that and she must’ve grown a different interest in women. The woman said to be Eleanor to be her lover was Lorena Hickok. There was said that over 3,500 letters and many were destroyed by Lorena. Eleanor would write how much she wantd to hold her and kiss her but couldn’t. This is some of the many letters Eleanor sent her: “Hick darling, All day I've thought of you & another birthday I will be with you, & yet tonite you sounded so far away & formal. Oh! I want to put my arms around you. I ache to hold you close. Your ring is a great comfort to me. I look at it and think she does love me, or I wouldn't be wearing it. “

and this one is from Lorena to Eleanor:
“I remember your eyes, with a kind of teasing smile in them, and the feeling of that soft spot just northeast of the corner of your mouth against my lips." Lorena concluded that letter with, "Good night, dear one. I want to put my arms around you and kiss you at the corner of your mouth. And in a little more than a week now--I shall!"

In her entire lifetime she never came out saying she was a lesbian or a bisexual. But after her death the truth came out of her love affair with Lorena. It wasn’t just a rumor because all of those letters are the proof.
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Wrold War 2

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Eleanor Roosevelt like any other American didn't like the idea of going to war. She was hoping we stuck to our word and stood neutral. But unlike the rest she thought realistically and knew it was only a matter of time before America would join the war. She was really involved with the war even though Franklin wasn't president anymore. She was very unhappy with William Jennings Bryan which was the Secretary of State. She called his submarine attack an outrage, and was actually glad when he resigned. The president announced at the cabinet that America had to go to war because "the world must be made safe for democracy". When America joined the war, Eleanor like many other women went to support the troops. She worked in the American Red Cross helping the wounded, and sick. She joined because she was very disappointed with the treatment the soldiers were receiving. They should get the best cause I mean their putting their life on the line for us. During the war Eleanor accompanied Franklin to Europe. While there she visited all the sites of war, all their hospitals. She hated the feeling she said "as though ghosts were beside you." All those lives lost for nothing. Eleanor hated the fact of war but still thought we should fight to defend democracy.

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Life in the White House

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Franklin became president in 1933. Eleanor kind of knew how it was to be the first lady because she had seen her aunt Edith with her uncle Theodore. She really worked with her husband to make the nation right. She made endless efforts to make things right. She came out of under the shadow of her husband and mother-in-law. She held press conferences, traveled to all parts of the country, gave lectures and radio broadcasts, and expressed her opinions in a newspaper column called, "My Day." She was the first First Lady to take action while her husband was in office.

She made many organizations to help the people. She actually cared and worked to help the people. She didn’t only try and help people in the United States she wanted to help everyone in the world. That’s why it resulted that she was actually one of the co founders of the United Nations. She spoke out for the black people, poor people, working women, migrant workers, and dissatisfied students. In 1935 she wrote her autobiography. Her column on the newspaper was what inspired her to write it. She had her own radio program where she expressed what she’ll be doing for the nation all the updates. The White House was never so busy until Eleanor arrived. So, many guests would go meet with her and Franklin. As a democrat Eleanor was a great example of what the First Lady should do to back up her husband. Even though she didn’t really want to be First Lady but she backed up her man with all his campaigns and she changed the whole nation.

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Marriage

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Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt married on March 17 of 1905. For about the first ten years of their marriage Eleanor was either giving birth or getting over giving birth. They lived in New York. Franklin went to school at Columbia University and studied law. She had Anna, James, and Franklin all in a four year time period. Franklin Jr. sadly didn’t make it past a couple of months. Her mother-in-law wasn’t much help at that time of grief. She basically added to the pain, she dominated all their lives. Then after from the time period of 1910-1916 Eleanor had Elliot, Franklin Jr., and John.

Their relationship was basically like a roller coaster. It had its ups n downs. Her mother-in-law caused a lot of their problems because she never really approved of their marriage. Eleanor suspected that he was cheating but never had any proof. In 1918, she found love letters between Franklin and Lucy Mercer, Eleanor’s social secretary. She as any woman would be was so furious. She threatened to divorce Franklin if he didn’t promise to end the affair and never see her again. They stayed together for the sake of their five children and his political career. A divorce would’ve looked really bad on his part. But after that incident their marriage wasn’t the same as before. She was more distant and didn’t feel the love. It was said that Franklin did keep up with his affair all the way till his death.

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Teenage years

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After the death of both her parents Eleanor went to live with her grandmother. Shortly after moving in with her, she sent Eleanor to boarding school in France. There Eleanor grew to love Europe. While growing up she didnt really have the glamorous life everyone would assume. She was really akward looking. She wasnt as beautigul as her mother. She was knobby kneed and buck toothed. She was always taller then all the other girls. And just like most girls in their teens hopeing to be like everyone else and not different. She faced those times almost every girl experiences when they feel as the ugliest girl alive. Her mother was so beautiful and she longed to have her good looks.

In 1902, at the age of 17 Eleanor returned to the United States. Shortly after her arrival she met a distant cousin Franklin D. Roosevelt which she became intrested in. They slowly got to know each other more and spent alot of time toghether and became engaged in 1903.They kept it on the low for a while. Franklin's mother wasn't really thrilled with them dating so they didn't announce their proposal until they married on St.Patrick's day two years later in a townhouse on Fifth Ave. The marriage of Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt resulted in six children. They were Anna, Franklin Jr. (died in infancy), James, Elliott, Franklin Jr. and John.

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Early years of Eleanor

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Eleanor Roosevelt was born as Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. The date was October 11th of the year 1884 at 56 West 37th Street in our very own New York City. Her parents were Elliot Roosevelt and Anna Hall Roosevelt. Weird because later in life her husband had the same last name which we know later on in her life that they were related in some way. Eleanor preferred to be called by her middle name instead of Anna. She had two younger brothers Elliot Jr. and Hall. She also had a half brother by her father and one of the young servant girls: Elliot Roosevelt Mann. Eleanor had the privilege to be in the high society because her family was indeed very wealthy. Despite all the wealth her life wasn’t all of a fairy tale. By the age of six she had to care for her sick mother and younger brothers.

When Eleanor was eight she had the misfortune of losing her mother to diphtheria which is an upper respiratory tract illness characterized by sore throat and low fever. When that happened her father became very depressed. He began drinking and wouldn’t go home for days in count. Since her mother wasn’t around Eleanor became very attached to her father and wasn’t really happy with his depression and addiction. About two years later her father Elliot also died. He died of depression and alcholism. By the age of ten Eleanor was an orphan. Her grandmother Mary Ludlow Hall then became her and her brothers legal gaurdian.

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Eleanor Roosevelt is one of the most influential women in American history. She was the wife of the Franklin D Roosevelt. She was one of the first, First Ladies that actually took action in poltics. She worked beside her husband and supported all his decisons for the nation. She worked to enforce "The New Deal"program. The new deal was the goal of giving relief, reform, and recovery to the people and economy after The Great Depression. In the 40's she was one of the founders of Freedom House and the UN Association of the United States. While she served her time at the UN she chaired the committee that drafted and approved the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. President Truman called her "TheFirst Lady of the World" in tribute to her human rights achievements and all the differnce she was making in the world.


"Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person; the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm, or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman, and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world."Does are the famous words of Eleanor and I couldn't have said it better myself. From her words you could tell she really believd in human rights. Everyone had the right to their own opinion of what human rights means to them and Eleanor enforced that right and made the human rights movement possible.
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