Eleanor Roosevelt's Impact On Society

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Eleanor Roosevelt, whose life did not look promising in the beginning with the loss of both her parents early on, ended up changing a worldShe then went to live with her grandmother who sent her to Allenswood Academy for girls. Described as an astute and observant child who had self confidence issues. There Eleanor studied under Marie Souvestre, a dedicated feminist. Eleanor would not finish school there as she hoped. Being called home Eleanor returned, at the age of 19 , as the niece of the president of the United States of America, Teddy Roosevelt. Eleanor began a relationship with her fifth cousin Franklin, the following year he proposed. They married in 1905. Their marriage was tested when Franklin cheated on Eleanor, she offered him a …show more content…

Roy Wilkins, the former director of the NAACP, said “Ms Roosevelt was the negroes true friend.” Racial discrimination which occurred frequently, deeply saddened and affected Eleanor Roosevelt. Her position on the controversial issue of the time angered many whites. Mary Mcleod Bethune, a political figure for African-Americans, was friends with Eleanor roosevelt. Mary Mcleod Bethune founded the National Association of Colored Women (NACW). Eleanor attended one of the meetings in which when she attempted to sit with Mary, officers told her she could not. Outraged and in a statement of protest Eleanor placed her chair in the aisle way between the blacks and the whites. Eleanor Roosevelt while help up high in society and apart of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR). When she found out the Marian Anderson, an opera singer, would not be able to sing at Constitution hall because she was black, Eleanor resigned from the DAR, this left the DAR with a bad status seeing one of their most reputable members resign. Eleanor also aided the black on an economic level. In 1941-43 black were only to hold nominal position in the kitchen or the motor pool. During this time a new flying unit had appeared in Tuskegee, Alabama, which eleanor soon after visited and flew with a black pilot, Charles Anderson. The trust Eleanor put into this black man proved to the world and gave the world confidence

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