Eleanor Roosevelt

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4. FirstLadies.org: Eleanor Roosevelt Biography 
5. Wikipedia: Eleanor Roosevelt
6. George Washington University: The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project
7. PBS: Eleanor Roosevelt
8. Learn to Question: Eleanor Roosevelt: A Mother To The World 

Eleanor Roosevelt Background and Profiles

The Early Years

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• NPS.gov: Who were her parents?
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Second Period

• AfterVote: The Papers of Eleanor Roosevelt, 1933-1945
• USA Dreams: Eleanor Roosevelt The Wallflower That Blossomed

Third Period

• Wikipedia: Eleanor Roosevelt
• National Trust: Eleanor Roosevelt On Her Own

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Eleanor Roosevelt Books and Research

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• History.com: Maya Angelou: Memories of Eleanor Roosevelt 
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Eleanor Roosevelt Blogs and Message Boards

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• VoaNews.com: Eleanor Roosevelt Was the Most Influential Wife of Any American President (2005)
• Eleanor.pnn: With Love, Eleanor Roosevelt 
• AmericanRhetoric: Eleanor Roosevelt Address to the United Nations General Assembly 
• WIC: Eleanor Roosevelt Tribute to Greatness

Eleanor Roosevelt Timeline

• 1884: born on October 11.
• 1903: Engaged to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, joins the National Consumers' League.
• 1905: Marries Franklin Delano Roosevelt  
• 1906: Gives birth to daughter Anna.
• 1907: Gives birth to son James.
• 1909: Gives birth to son Franklin, Jr. He dies of influenza the same year.
• 1910: Gives birth to son Elliot.
• 1912: Attends first Democratic Party convention.
• 1914: Gives birth to a son, also named Franklin, Jr.
• 1916: Gives birth to son to John.
• 1918: Works with the Red Cross and Navy Department.
• 1918: Learns of her husband's affair.
• 1920: Joins League of Women Voters.
• 1921: Nurses FDR after he is stricken with polio.
• 1928: Named the director of Bureau of Women's Activities of the DNC.
• 1933: Franklin D. Roosevelt elected as the 32nd President of the United States.
• 1933: Becomes the first president's wife to hold a press conference.
• 1934: Arranges a meeting between FDR and NAACP leader Walter White.
• 1935: Starts publishing her syndicated column, "My Day".
• 1945: Franklin D. Roosevelt dies and Eleanor returns to private life.
• 1945: Becomes a member of the NAACP board of directors.
• 1945: Becomes a U.S. delegate of the United Nations.
• 1948-49: Teams with daughter Anna and ABC on a daytime radio discussion program.
• 1948: Helps to secure passage of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the GA.  
• 1950: Teams with son Elliot and NBC on a TV and radio show.
• 1952: Resigns from the U.N. delegation after Eisenhower was elected President.
• 1957: Travels to the Soviet Union for the New York Post, meets Nikita Khrushchev.
• 1960: Writes You Learn by Living.
• 1961: John F. Kennedy re-appoints Eleanor to the U.N. & appoints her the first head of the President's Commission on the Status of Women.
• 1962: Dies of complications from tuberculosis on November 7.

Eleanor Roosevelt Satire and Humor

• History.com: Harry Belafornte More about Eleanor Roosevelt 
• Premierspeakers.com: Erma Stewart Bio Eleanor Roosevelt Impressionist

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