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WHITNEY, SHARON Eleanor Roosevelt.
New York Franklin Watts, 1982 0531044793 / 9780531044797 Hard Cover
118 pages, illustrated, cloth, dust jacket, very good, ex-library with usual library markings otherwise very good. From the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, '1884–1962, American humanitarian, b. New York City. 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. She retained these interests after marriage and while rearing her five children. 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....From 1945 to 1953 (and again in 1961) she was a U.S. delegate to the United Nations, and in 1946 she was made chair of the Commission on Human Rights, a subsidiary of the UN Economic and Social Council. In the 1950s she became a leader of the liberal wing of the Democratic party.'
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