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	Eleanor Roosevelt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Roosevelt was responsible for the establishment, in 1964, of the 2,800 acre (11 km
		Eleanor Roosevelt was outspoken on numerous causes and continued to galvanize the world with her comments and opinions well into her 70s.
		Roosevelt's tales of her hunting excursions were well received, though they did not serve to further the cause of women's liberation: in keeping with the chauvinistic standards of the time, Roosevelt's stories were published under the masculine pseudonym "Chuck Painton" to avoid offending the magazine's overwhelmingly male readership.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eleanor_Roosevelt (3961 words)

	Eleanor Roosevelt - MSN Encarta
		Eleanor Roosevelt had an active public career before and during her marriage and continued to maintain a high profile after her husband’s death.
		Eleanor Roosevelt was born on October 11, 1884, in New York City, the first child of Anna Hall and Elliott Roosevelt.
		Eleanor’s mother, Anna, was one of the most beautiful women in New York high society, and this made young Eleanor feel insecure about her plainer appearance.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761577012/Roosevelt_(Anna)_Eleanor.html (2053 words)

	Eleanor Roosevelt: Counselor Idealist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Eleanor recalled with some bemusement how sharp a bargainer her new husband was even when he did not understand the language being used in the bargaining.
		Eleanor was horrified by what she saw: "Poor demented creatures, with apparently very little attention being paid them, gazing from behind bars or walking up and down on enclosed porches." The patients wandered aimlessly around the wards whose doors were tightly locked.
		Eleanor's visit to St. Elizabeth's was important because it was the first time in her life that she took a vigorous role in bringing about a political remedy to a social problem.
	keirsey.com /personality/eleanor.html (3691 words)

	Eleanor Roosevelt Biography
		Her father was Elliott Roosevelt, President Theodore Roosevelt's younger brother and her mother was Anna Hall, a descendent of the Livingstons, a distinguished New York family.
		Roosevelt became increasingly active in politics both to help him maintain his interests and to assert her own personality and goals.
		Eleanor Roosevelt was in real demand as a speaker and lecturer, both in person and through the media of radio and television.
	www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu /erbio.html (678 words)

	Eleanor Roosevelt
		Eleanor Roosevelt is best known as a former First Lady of the United States and wife of 32nd President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt.
		Eleanor was initially educated by private tutors, and in 1889, at the age of 15, she was sent to England to attend Allenswood Academy.
		Eleanor told reporters, "The story is over", apparently believing that with Franklin's passing her own role, later described by Harry S. Truman as "First Lady to the World", had ended.
	www.nndb.com /people/467/000022401 (1461 words)

	The American Experience \| Eleanor Roosevelt \| People & Events \| Eleanor Roosevelt
		Although Eleanor Roosevelt came to symbolize the independent and politically active woman of the twentieth century, her views early in life reflected those of most women of her time and class.
		Eleanor Roosevelt was born in 1884 into a well-established and wealthy New York family.
		Feeling betrayed and lonely, Eleanor responded to Franklin's infidelity by demanding that he end the affair, and she took the opportunity to launch out on a life of increased activity.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/eleanor/peopleevents/pande01.html (1201 words)

	National Women's Hall of Fame - Women of the Hall
		As a child, Eleanor Roosevelt was made to feel that she was an "ugly duckling." After losing both her parents, she was raised by her stern and proper grandmother, and her loneliness persisted until she was befriended by the headmistress at her boarding school.
		Eleanor Roosevelt held her own press conferences, toured the nation repeatedly, and pressed her opinions through newspaper columns and radio broadcasts.
		Eleanor Roosevelt continued to be active in politics and in work for international cooperation.
	www.greatwomen.org /women.php?action=viewone&id=128 (424 words)

	Eleanor Roosevelt Biography
		Roosevelt discusses both documents, including the articles she thinks are of vital importance, and her views on the Commission’s work in general.
		Roosevelt argues that the objectives of the United Nations are not only to encourage equal political rights for women in all countries, but also to ensure that women fully participate in directing the policy making of their governments.
		Roosevelt declares that "the destiny of human rights is in the hands of all our citizens in all our communities." She urges people to improve human rights conditions "in small places, close to home" as the first step towards global progress.
	www.udhr.org /history/Biographies/bioer.htm (1484 words)

	Guide Introduction: The Papers of Eleanor Roosevelt, 1933-1945
		Eleanor Roosevelt saw in him the spark of life that she remembered from her father; he, in turn, saw in her the discipline that would curb his own instincts toward excess.
		Eleanor Roosevelt's own political role was best seen in the 1936 re-election drive when she used the educational approach developed by the Women's Division in 1932 as a primary campaign weapon.
		She and Franklin Roosevelt had worked out a tacit understanding which permitted her to bring the cause of the oppressed to his attention, and allowed him, in turn, to use her activism as a means of building alliances with groups to his left.
	www.lexisnexis.com /academic/guides/womens_studies/eroos.asp (5885 words)

	Eleanor Roosevelt Encyclopedia Articles @ SomethingPersonal.com (Something Personal) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was born at 56 West 37th St. Eleanor's family was descended from Claes Martenszen van Rosenvelt who emigrated to New Amsterdam (Manhattan) from the Netherlands in the 1640s.
		Eleanor's relationship with her cousin and other Oyster Bay Roosevelts would also be strained by the growing political gulf between the Hyde Park and Oyster Bay families as 's political career began to take off.
		Interestingly, when Franklin was inaugurated president in 1933, Alice was invited to attend along with her brothers Kermit and Archie both of whom Eleanor was close to.
	www.somethingpersonal.com /encyclopedia/Eleanor_Roosevelt (3086 words)

	Eleanor Roosevelt
		Eleanor Roosevelt first came to Campobello in 1903, when she and Franklin were courting, to visit his parents at James and Sara’s summer cottage.
		Eleanor shared Franklin’s interest in positive international relations, as evidenced by their making the Campobello home available to the Summer Student Leadership Institute, and by Eleanor’s leadership in the drafting and adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
		Eleanor Roosevelt last came to Campobello in 1962, for the dedication of the FDR Memorial Bridge linking the island with Lubec, Maine.
	www.fdr.net /englishii/park_eleanor.html (398 words)

	Eleanor Roosevelt \| American First Lady & Humanitarian
		Eleanor married a distant cousin, Franklin Roosevelt, in 1905.
		Eleanor Roosevelt wrote four books: This is My Story (1937); This I Remember (1950); On My Own (1958); and Tomorrow Is Now (published in 1963 after her death).
		Black shows how Eleanor Roosevelt, after being freed from the constraints imposed by her role in the White House, eagerly expanded her career and unabashedly challenged both the Democratic party and American liberals to practice what they preach.
	www.lucidcafe.com /library/95oct/roosevel.html (548 words)

	Eleanor Roosevelt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Eleanor Roosevelt was born in New York City on October 11, 1884, to Elliott Roosevelt and Anna Hall Roosevelt, descendants of a prominent family of Dutch ancestry.
		Eleanor's mother died when she was eight, her father when she was ten.
		Eleanor's discovery of Franklin's affair with her social secretary, Lucy Page Mercer, in 1918 was a turning point in their marriage.
	www.distinguishedwomen.com /biographies/roosevel.html (511 words)

	ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
		Eleanor did teach again, when her children were grown, as a history instructor at Todhunter, a private girls' school that she and some friends ran on New York's Upper East Side.
		Eleanor was an effective political organizer, when in 1924 she rallied women throughout New York state in support of the Democratic Party and led a delegation to the Democratic National Convention.
		Eleanor's public forums were as popular and noteworthy as her husband's famous "fireside chats." Many times Eleanor would receive reporters dressed in her riding clothes, but in her mind did not realize she was making a fashion statement.
	www.aboutfamouspeople.com /article1080.html (1647 words)

	Eleanor Roosevelt
		Eleanor Roosevelt was born in New York City on 11th October, 1884.
		Her father, Elliott Roosevelt, was the brother of Theodore Roosevelt, president of the United States (1901-1909).
		Eleanor played a significant role in her husband's successful political campaigns when he was elected as governor of New York (1929) and president of the United States (1932).
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USArooseveltE.htm (430 words)

	The My Hero Project - Eleanor Roosevelt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		You may be wondering who this outspoken courageous woman is. Her name is Eleanor Roosevelt and she was born in New York City on Oct. 11, 1884.
		Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute is a non-profit organization dedicated to informing new generations of the ideals and achievements of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.
		The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers is an educational Web site prepared by the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers for the National Park Service.
	www.myhero.com /myhero/hero.asp?hero=eleanorRoosevelt (1682 words)

	Roosevelt, Eleanor. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The daughter of Elliott Roosevelt and niece of Theodore Roosevelt, she was an active worker in social causes before she married (1905) Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a distant cousin.
		When Franklin Roosevelt was stricken (1921) with poliomyelitis, she took a more active interest in public issues in order to restore his links with the world of politics.
		As wife of the governor of New York and then as wife of the U.S. president, she played a leading part in women’s organizations and was active in encouraging youth movements, in promoting consumer welfare, in working for the civil rights of minorities, and in combating poor housing and unemployment.
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	Meet Eleanor Roosevelt: A one-woman theatre piece
		At the threshold of the Roaring Twenties Eleanor Roosevelt was thirty-six.
		Eleanor Roosevelt had met Bethune in 1927 and recognized in her a person deeply dedicated to the nurture of young people.
		Eleanor Roosevelt gained a sophisticated point of view about the struggle of Black Americans and never afterwards refrained from pointing out that the notion of fighting for democracy meant nothing unless the United States broke its pattern of segregation at home.
	www.gis.net /~mtf/er.htm (3628 words)

	Eleanor Roosevelt biography
		Was a niece of Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States and 6th cousin of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of United States, who became her husband.
		Her tenure (1933-1945) was the longest only because her husband's tenure as president was the longest, but Eleanor Roosevelt became the first activist first lady.
		When Franklin D. Roosevelt died in office in 1945, Eleanor Roosevelt's role as first lady was over, but her career was not.
	www.lkwdpl.org /wihohio/roos-ele.htm (641 words)

	Gale - Free Resources - Women's History - Biographies - Eleanor Roosevelt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Eleanor Roosevelt's extended family was among the ruling class in America in the first half of the twentieth century.
		Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was born in New York City in 1884.
		Roosevelt was especially concerned with the condition of America's youth during the Depression.
	www.galegroup.com /free_resources/whm/bio/roosevelt_e.htm (1222 words)

	Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Biography: A shy, awkward child, starved for recognition and love, Eleanor Roosevelt grew into a woman with great sensitivity to the underprivileged of all creeds, races, and nations.
		She was born in New York City on October 11, 1884, daughter of lovely Anna Hall and Elliott Roosevelt, younger brother of Theodore.
		Roosevelt came to the White House in 1933, she understood social conditions better than any of her predecessors and she transformed the role of First Lady accordingly.
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	TIME 100: Eleanor Roosevelt
		When Eleanor Roosevelt journeyed to New York City a week after her husband's funeral in April 1945, a cluster of reporters were waiting at the door of her Washington Square apartment.
		Eleanor shattered the ceremonial mold in which the role of the First Lady had traditionally been fashioned, and reshaped it around her own skills and her deep commitment to social reform.
		The only daughter of an alcoholic father and a beautiful but aloof mother who was openly disappointed by Eleanor's lack of a pretty face, Eleanor was plagued by insecurity and shyness.
	www.time.com /time/time100/leaders/profile/eleanor.html (337 words)

	WIC Biography - Eleanor Roosevelt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		World-renowned, respected, and admired, Eleanor Roosevelt made many lasting and meaningful contributions to the welfare of mankind which have stood the rigorous test of time.
		Roosevelt was an energetic and outspoken representative of the needs of people suffering from the Great Depression.
		Eleanor Roosevelt was quoted as saying "You get more joy out of the giving to others, and should put a good deal of thought into the happiness you are able to give."
	www.wic.org /bio/roosevel.htm (270 words)

	Eleanor Roosevelt NHS -- NRHP Travel Itinerary
		Eleanor once described Val-Kill and its pastoral surroundings as the place "I used to find myself and grow" and where "I emerged as an individual".
		The years following her husband's death, Eleanor Roosevelt emerged as a world figure, beginning with her appointment as American ambassador to the United Nations in 1946 and her work on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, written chiefly in the solitude provided at Val-Kill.
		The Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site is the subject of an online-lesson plan produced by Teaching with Historic Places, a National Register program that offers classroom-ready lesson plans on properties listed in the National Register.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/pwwmh/ny20.htm (326 words)

	Eleanor Roosevelt : A Life of Discovery by Russell Freedman - Honor 1994
		She was the wife of the United States President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the niece of another, Theodore Roosevelt.
		In the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and Museum, the nation's first Presidential Library, two wings are dedicated to the memory of Eleanor Roosevelt.
		Eleanor Roosevelt was one of the most popular first ladies.
	www.eduscapes.com /newbery/94d.html (389 words)

	Amazon.com: Eleanor Roosevelt: Books: Blanche Wiesen Cook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This highly readable, well-researched work of feminist scholarship erases the image of the young Eleanor Roosevelt as a long-suffering, repressed wife and presents her as a strong, ever-evolving individual.
		Eleanor Roosevelt's passions impress those who recall her later public image as a dowdy grandmother-type.
		I found the information on the early life of Eleanor to be especially interesting, in how so many of the obstacles that she faced as a youth played a large role in how she dealt with others the rest of her life.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140094601?v=glance (1831 words)

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