ROOSEVELT, Eleanor: Statue in the entrance hallway in the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.

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Anna Eleanor Roosevelt known as Eleanor(October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962) was an American political leader who used her influence as an active First Lady from 1933 to 1945 to promote the New Deal policies of her husband, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, as well as taking a prominent role as an advocate for civil rights. After her husband's death in 1945, she continued to be an internationally prominent author and speaker for the New Deal coalition. She was a suffragist who worked to enhance the status of working women, although she opposed the Equal Rights Amendment because she believed it would adversely affect women. In the 1940s, she was one of the co-founders of Freedom House and supported the formation of the United Nations. Eleanor Roosevelt founded the UN Association of the United States in 1943 to advance support for the formation of the UN. She was a delegate to the UN General Assembly in 1945 and chaired the committee that drafted and approved the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. President Harry S. Truman called her the "First Lady of the World" in tribute to her human rights achievements. Source: Wikipedia

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Related subjects: History, American; US Presidents; Women; Eleanor Roosevelt
Location: Massachusetts & Wisconsin Aves NW Washington, D.C. National Cathedral

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'Who is That Man Anyway?' on Eleanor(77)
Wikipedia article on Roosevelt
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Archives.gov on the FDR's "Day of Infamy" speech

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