Eleanor Roosevelt in the years of my life been able to express themselves in many areas of public and political activities.At the same time the most important of his achievements, it is considered a success in the work aimed at the protection of human rights.Eleanor was born into a fairly wealthy and privileged family in New York in 1884.By the age of ten, she became an orphan, in connection with what was raised by relatives in the future.She was not happy with the atmosphere of social life, she felt suffocating, so got a job at one of the social centers in Manhattan.There she taught dance improvisation and plastic.In 1905, her husband was full of promise young politician Franklin Roosevelt.Eleanor later bore him six children.
active volunteering great American fell to the First World War.At that time, she worked in one of the dining rooms of the Red Cross and constantly visited wounded soldiers in the hospitals.Eleanor Roosevelt quotes which are known throughout the world, later he said that the feeling that she brought in this time of great benefit, for it was the greatest joy in life.In 1920, the family was a trouble - Franklin contracted polio.His wife was extremely difficult to be torn between him and volunteer activities.However, she managed not only to help her husband to resume his political career, but also to win the gubernatorial elections in New York in 1928.Four years later, Franklin was elected US president.
At this time, Eleanor Roosevelt became the chief political adviser to her husband.First of all, she championed the rights of women, minorities and the poor.After his visits to the country it is reported to the head of state about everything and very often tried to persuade him to change policy on certain issues.Its information is always backed up by statistical data.Great success has been achieved Eleanor in the fight against racial discrimination, proof of which was the number signed by the President on her initiative administrative decrees.
After her husband's death in 1945, the new president, Harry Truman, Eleanor Roosevelt was appointed a member of the US delegation to the UN.Here she is working on issues that have been linked to human rights and freedom of information, as well as prepare a report on the Declaration on the status of women and civil liberties.Later, she became one of the authors of the Declaration of Human Rights, which with great difficulty, but still was approved by the Third Committee of the United Nations.It is this authority was in charge of humanitarian and social issues.It was late at night, December 9, 1948.The project was supported by the representatives of 48 countries, and its long standing ovation greeted the author.
Eleanor Roosevelt at the United Nations has worked for three years, then left the organization.She never ceased to write and to travel around the country, lecturing at universities.In addition, until his death in 1962, Eleanor took an active part in the life of the American Democratic Party.
