Eleanor Roosevelt

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent”

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About Her

Ethnicity: American

Birthday: October 11, 1884

Born in: New York City

Death: November 7, 1962

Occupation

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was many things in her lifetime. She was a wife, a mother but she was also an American politician, diplomat and activist.She has held the position of the First Lady from March 1933 to April 1945 during her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms in office, while serving as United States Delegate to the United Nations General Assembly from 1945 to 1952.

Achievements

Eleanor was a leading activist for both the rights of women and African Americans. She was also one of the firåstå First Lady's to ever write a daily newspaper column. She had also oversaw the drafting and passage of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.While also holding also the position of being one of the most influential people of the twentieth century.