Eleanor Roosevelt Research Paper

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The First Lady is a Hero Eleanor Roosevelt is an inspiring hero for fighting against evil, tender compassion for the oppressed, and her selfless bravery in public. Eleanor Roosevelt is a hero because she actively fights for women’s rights and for civil rights. During Roosevelt's life, women and African-Americans were treated as less than white male Americans. She views this as unjust. She used her position as the first lady to advantage against those evils. Emilio Lodice, author of the article, “The Journal of Values-Based Leadership” states, “Eleanor actively engaged and supported women in the war effort. She encouraged them to work in defense industries and helped get the administration to supply childcare and fair pay. FDR was convinced …show more content…
The laws that were set in place during her life were corrupt and unfair toward African-Americans. She cared for people, so she supported civil rights. Robinson states, “She was also the nation’s most visible white supporter of the civil rights of black Americans. Mrs. Roosevelt visited black colleges, held White House Forums with black speakers, patronized African American artists, and lobbied for inclusion in the administration of the African American advisors of the “Black Cabinet,” most notably her friend Mary McLeod Bethune, college president and director of the Negro Branch of the National Youth Administration”(3). Roosevelt hated the inequity of black Americans. She showed she cared for them through her active support for civil rights. In Vertican 2 addition, Robinson states, “Mrs. Roosevelt achieved her greatest renown in the postwar period as a champion of international human rights, notably in her role as chair of the committee that drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1947–48, and later as leader in the struggle to ratify the Human Rights covenants that enforced the provisions of the Declaration” (2). She displayed compassion for human