Eleanor was the wife of US President Franklin D Roosevelt, Eleanor and a highly significant woman in her own right. In the 1920s she became involved in the Women's Trade Union League and the women's wing of the Democratic Party.
Following her husband's election as president in 1933, she worked alongside him, hosting press conferences and embarking on the tours which his disability wouldn't allow. She began to write books, articles, a newspaper column, and became increasingly active in the civil rights movement.
In 1945, following her husband's death, she was invited by the United Nations to work on the draft for the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, for which work she received a standing ovation. She continued her crusade for civil rights up until her death in 1962.
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