Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt: Encyclopedia - Eleanor Roosevelt

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962) was an American human rights activist, stateswoman, journalist, educator, author, and diplomat. As the wife of President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt, the longest serving First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945. An active First Lady, she traveled around the United States promoting the New Deal and visited troops at the frontlines during World War II. She was a first-wave Feminist (but opposed the Equal Rights Amendment), an ...

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Eleanor Roosevelt: American History Dictionary - Eleanor Roosevelt

Definition and meaning of Eleanor Roosevelt:

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Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of the president, was a force for civil rights and a spokeswoman for better treatment and equal employment opportunities for African Americans and women in the depression years of the 1930s.

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Eleanor Roosevelt: Encyclopedia II - Eleanor Roosevelt - Early Life

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was born at 56 West 37th St. in New York City, New York to Elliott Roosevelt and Anna Eleanor Hall and was the favorite niece of Theodore Roosevelt. Following her parents' deaths, young Anna Eleanor was raised by her maternal grandmother, an emotionally cold woman, in an autocratic house. She was looked down upon by most of her family, presumably because of her plain looks and six foot tall frame. Although she was still in her Uncle Teddy's good graces, Eleanor found herself at odds with his eldest daught ...

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Eleanor Roosevelt: Encyclopedia - Blanche Wiesen Cook

Blanche Wiesen Cook is the author of one of Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt's most extensive biographies. Other related archivesEleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt: Encyclopedia - Anna E. Roosevelt

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Dall Boettiger Halsted (May 3, 1906 – December 1, 1975) was the first child of Eleanor Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt. She was named for her mother and grandmother, Anna Roosevelt and was usually called Anna. Caught in a triad of three strong willed persons--her father FDR; her mother; and her grandmother, the domineering Sara Roosevelt--young Anna Eleanor had to grow up quickly. Anna's father later became the 32nd U.S. president, her mother the famous first lady. She was married 3 ti ...

Eleanor Roosevelt: Encyclopedia - Val-Kill Industries

Eleanor Roosevelt established Val-Kill Industries in 1927 with Nancy Cook, Marion Dickerman, and Caroline O'Day, three friends she met through her activities in the Women's Division of the New York State Democratic Party. Val-Kill was located on the banks of a stream that flowed through the Roosevelt family estate in Hyde Park, New York. Eleanor and her business partners financed the construction of a small factory to provide supplemental income for local farming families who would make furniture, pewter, and homespun cloth using trad ...

Eleanor Roosevelt: Encyclopedia - Anna Hall Roosevelt

Anna Eleanor Hall Roosevelt (March 17, 1863-December 7, 1892) was a dazzling beauty who caught the eye of Elliott Rossevelt. Elliott married her in December, 1883 when he was 23 and she was 19. She bore him three children : Anna Eleanor, Elliott Jr. (1889-1893), and Hall (1891-1941). Eleanor would go on to become First Lady of the United States of America when she married Franklin D. Roosevelt. Despite her beauty, she was somewhat ashamed of Eleanor's plainness and even nicknamed Eleanor "Granny." When Elean ...

Eleanor Roosevelt: Encyclopedia - United Nations Association of the United States of America

The United Nations Association of the United States of America or UNA-USA was founded in 1943 by Eleanor Roosevelt as the American Association for the United Nations (AAUN) which was merged with the U.S. Committee for the United Nations in 1964. UNA-USA is a non-profit organization which serves to educate Americans about the United Nations (UN) and about the issues being addressed by the UN. UNA-USA also works to support and encourage the Model United Nations (MUN) programs, most of which are organized loca ...

Eleanor Roosevelt: Encyclopedia - Universal Declaration of Human Rights

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (also UDHR) is a declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly (A/RES/217, December 10, 1948), outlining a view on basic human rights. John Peters Humphrey of Canada was its principal drafter, aided by Eleanor Roosevelt of the United States, René Cassin of France, and P. C. Chang of China, among others. While it is not a legally binding document, it served as the foundation for the original two legally-binding UN human rights Covenants, the International Covenant on ...

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Eleanor Roosevelt: Encyclopedia - Maslow's hierarchy of needs

Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a theory in psychology that Abraham Maslow proposed in his 1943 paper A Theory of Human Motivation, which he subsequently extended. His theory contends that as humans meet 'basic needs', they seek to satisfy successively 'higher needs' that occupy a set hierarchy. Maslow studied exemplary people such as Albert Einstein, Jane Addams, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Frederick Douglass rather than mentally ill or neurotic people, writing that "the study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology an ...

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Eleanor Roosevelt: Encyclopedia - American Youth Congress

American Youth Congress (AYC) was an early youth voice organization composed of youth from all across the country to discuss the problems facing youth as a whole in the 1930's. It met several years in a row - one year it notably met on the lawn of the White House. The delagates are known to have caused a disturbance when they attempted to access the United States Congress. They focused on the draft, which was taking youths at age 18 off to war. At the time in the United States one was not legally an adult in any way until one wa ...

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Eleanor Roosevelt: Encyclopedia - Wendell Willkie

Wendell Lewis Willkie (February 18, 1892 – October 8, 1944) was a lawyer, born in Elwood, Indiana to Phillip Wilkie, the only native of Indiana to be nominated as the presidential candidate for a national party, having never held any sort of high elected office. In 1940 he was the Republican nominee for the 1940 presidential election. Willkie lost the election to Franklin D. Roosevelt. Wendell Willkie - Political life. After fighting in World War I, Willkie moved to Akron, Ohio and soon gained status in t ...

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Eleanor Roosevelt: Encyclopedia II - Alice Roosevelt Longworth - Childhood

Alice Lee Roosevelt was born at the Roosevelt family home on 6 West 57th St. in New York City. Two days after her birth, both her mother Alice and her paternal grandmother died at the Roosevelt family home in Manhattan. Roosevelt, then a New York state legislator, was so distraught with the loss of his wife that he never spoke of her again and refused to have her name mentioned in his presence. Even his daughter was seldom referred to by her name (a practice she continued late in life, preferring to be called "Mrs. L"). Grief-stricken, Roose ...

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