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 * Eleanor Roosevelt**



Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was the First Lady from 1933 to 1945. She supported the New Deal policies of her husband, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. After her husband's death in 1945, Roosevelt continued to be an international author, speaker, politician, and activist for the New Deal Coalition. She worked to enhance the status of working women, although she opposed the Equal Rights Amendment because she believed it would adversely affect women.

Eleanor was a very respected woman. She earned over 45 honorary degrees during her lifetime by many different people and organizations including Russell Sage College and Doctor of Humane Letters.

She was a big influence on woman's rights, and also helped tremendously during the world war. Our nation would not be the same without Eleanor.









She gave many speeches to support civil rights and the world war.

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