Eleanor Roosevelt
"Do one thing every day that scares you.”
Accomplishments
-Expanded the role of women in society
-Urged the administration to appoint women to influential positions in New Deal programs
-Heavily influenced her husband to stay on track with what the country should be focusing on
-Active in the American Red Cross, volunteered in Navy hospitals, and took on a more public political role
-Leader in her own right and involved in numerous humanitarian causes
Life
-Had six children, five who lived to adulthood
-Husband cheated on her with her secretary but they remained married
-Died at 78 from aplastic anemia, tuberculosis and heart failure
-Was the cousin once removed from her husband
-Born on October 11, 1884, in New York City
-Was an awkward and serious child
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“Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.”
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
Legacies
-Democratic National Committee
-Helped the black community and their freedom