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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