The social reformer I decided to write about was Eleanor Roosevelt, one of the longest serving first ladies in the White House. I chose to write about her because of her unique roles in life. Eleanor was the wife of the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt. While Mrs. Roosevelt grew up in a time period where wealth was big in her family, she did not partake (Bickford & Badal, 2016). Mrs. Roosevelt was a very well known woman with a strong belief to help others. She made sure that the issues that should be taken care of and will help individuals live a better life. Eleanor Roosevelt advocated for many different backgrounds, but mostly for those who had issues during the economic crisis. This mainly included women, African American and children of the youth. She helped with shaping multiple laws that would benefit those of the working class. While she began with the national labor relation act, the fair labor standards act, and the social security act, she was also …show more content…
While the issues were given attention to be fixed in that time period, there are more broad issues that have risen since. This would give Mrs. Roosevelt the opportunity to see just how society is functioning under the labor laws as well as the other laws she helped get together, but how they are working in the 21st century. I think it would be eye opening to her if she could see the way society is today and how there is also not a close connection of reporters and individuals like there was when she was the first lady. She could also see how she was the only first lady to be in the White House for more than two terms. This sets her aside from the other presidents wives. I would be interested to see her reaction of how politics are being handled in todays time and how the change in politics now handels their political
Putting on a "Show" for all of America, she let no one know the severity of his sickness, and handled many government issues by her self. Edith Wilson stayed involved with politics after her husbands death, and was a very strong, woman who took charge of things, and supported her husband, and his efforts. Eleanor Roosevelt was the wife of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Eleanor was such a Strong and out-going person that she held her very own press conference just two days after FDR was inaugurated. In fact she held the first press conference ever held by a First Lady.
Daniel Oduntan Linda Graham HIST 1302 30 October 2017 Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt was born on October 27, 1858 in New York City, New York in the United States. Theodore was the second child of four children in a wealthy, upper-class family. Theodore’s father was a businessman and philanthropist. Theodore’s mother was also born into an affluent family.
J. William T. Youngs, Eleanor Roosevelt: A Personal and Public Life, Longman, New York 2000
...al Bill was vetoed and opposed by large companies, Solis fearlessly persisted to help the poor and minority communities be heard. Trying to be heard in a company she was not extremely involved with and the criticism from Governor Walker caused her to be courageous, and she made new rules and changes to give more power to workers and interns of the country. Being politically courageous can lead to much criticism, but Hilda Solis boldly fought for what she thought was right and for the people she cared about.
Eleanor Roosevelt was an outstanding First Lady, she was the longest lasting First Lady in office and helped define and shape the role of the First Lady’s duties in office. She played many roles as the First Lady, she made public appearances with her husband Franklin D. Roosevelt, she was a leading activist in women rights and civil rights, she held many press conferences, wrote a column daily in the newspaper, and hosted radio shows at least once a week. Though her and her husband’s time in office may have been difficult, Eleanor proudly supported New Deal programs and helped create many government programs such as the National Youth Administration and the Works progress Administration
Youngs, J. William T. Eleanor Roosevelt: A Personal and Public Life. New York: Pearson/Longman, 2000. xvi + 10 (illustrations) + 292 pp. $29.59 (paper) ISBN 0-321-35232-1
Eleanor Roosevelt was a First Lady during the time of the Great Depression. She made huge differences in the lives of women, youth and minorities.
The end of World Wat I coincided with a grave personal crisis, the discovery of her husband's love for another woman. Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt were eventually reconciled, but the relationship was never the same. When they returned to New York in 1921 she determined to build a life of her own. She became active in the League of Women Voters, the Women's Trade Union League, and the women's division of the Democratic Party. Her personal emancipation was completed after Roosevelt was stricken with polio in 1921. Eleanor Roosevelt was determined to keep alive her husband's interest in public affairs. Sher was encouraged and tutored by Louis Howe, Roosevelt's close adviser, whom she had nortvapproved of. With his help she became her husband's political stand-in and an effective spokesperson.
When her husband became the President, Eleanor Roosevelt made herself a strong speaker on behalf of a wide range of social causes, including youth employment and civil rights for blacks and women. She also had compassion for the Jewish and helped them go through the time when Hitler had power. She did all of her work with self-confidence, authority, independence, and cleverness. Eleanor Roosevelt is one of the greatest women who ever lived because of her accomplishments, her benefits to mankind, and her motives to accomplish her goals.
After moving to Rochester, NY in 1845, the Anthony family became very active in the anti-slavery movement.
Rosa Parks risked her life everyday by being a leader and role model in her community. Rosa and her husband were both fired from their jobs and they had no income, which meant they had no money for their family. To make things worse Parks was getting threatening calls and it got to the point of
Heroes and leaders have long had a popular following in literature and in our own imaginations. From Odysseus in ancient Grecian times to May Parker in Spider-man Two, who states, “We need a hero, courageous sacrificing people, setting examples for all of us. I believe there’s a hero in all of us, that keeps us honest, gives us strength, makes us noble” (Raimi, 2004). Organizations need heroes, too. We call them organizational leaders. The study of organizational leadership, then, is really the study of what makes a person a successful hero. Or, what processes, constructs, traits, and dynamics embody the image of a successful leader.
If asked to name one person involved in the fight for social equalities would Susan B. Anthony come to mind? Susan’s passion for social reform began on her family farm in Adams, Massachusetts. On the fifteenth of February in 1820, Susan Brownell Anthony was born to a local cotton mill owner and his wife. She was the second eldest of eight children born to the Quaker family. It was in this Quaker family were her passion for equal rights grew. In the Quaker religion women are treated equal to men before God. According to Sara Ann McGill (2017) author of “Susan B. Anthony”, around age seventeen Anthony’s family moved to Battenville, New York only to lose their home to bankruptcy and move to Rochester,
This source is excellent to further understand Theodore Roosevelt’s life. In this book the author goes in depth about his personality, political life, and life at home. I want to mostly use the information on this source to talk about his private life. The book goes more in detail about his childhood life and his hobbies as he grew up. It goes on to explaining how he liked boxing, how he was homeschooled because he was a sick child, and how he married Alice Hathaway Lee of Massachusetts. This source is reliable because the author used information from the Library of Congress. Henry Fowles Pringle was also a professor at Columbia School of Journalism, and during World War II was the head of the publications division of the United States Office of War Information.
It started with Eleanor Roosevelt in 1933 when her husband, Franklin D. Roosevelt, became president. Unlike first Ladies before her, Eleanor was not content to sit in the background while her husband ran the show. She used her husband’s presidency as a platform to spread her work as a human rights activist. This made E...