Eleanor Roosevelt

Introduction:

      Ann Eleanor Roosevelt, famously known as Eleanor Roosevelt was an extraordinary American female humanities activist, and is believed to be one of the most important women of the 20th century.[i] One should be able to define the word activism in order to be able to understand the great magnitude of Roosevelt’s life contributions. According to the Webster’s dictionary activism is the doctrine or practice of vigorous action or involvement as means of achieving political or other goals, sometimes by demonstrations, protests. Etc.   Eleanor is such an important figure not only American History but she was internationally respected as well. [ii]   She was more than an activist. Eleanor Roosevelt was the wife of the thirty second American president Franklin D. Roosevelt, a well known philanthropist, a renowned author, a world diplomat, and a persevering champion of liberal causes ranging from women’s rights to global human rights.[iii] She broke the stereotypical mold that the first ladies were generally a little more than appendages to the president, and became the finest first lady to exceed the prominence of her chief executive husband.[iv] Roosevelt work in behalf of youth, blacks, the poor, women, and the United Nations surpassed her twelve years as first lady. [v] Eleanor Roosevelt was a woman with great sensitivity to the underprivileged, and her constant work to improve the world made her one of the most loved women in history.[vi]

Child Hood:

      According to some historian Ann Eleanor Roosevelt was a shy awkward child starved for love.   She was born October 11, 1884 in New York into an economical comfortable but trouble family.[vii]   Her father Elliot Roosevelt was the brother of Theodore Roosevelt (the 26th President of the United States) and came from the famous Dutch landowning who settled in New Amsterdam in the 17th century.[viii] Her mother Ann Hall was a descendant of the Livingston clan who played an important role in the...