Was Eleanor Roosevelt involved in any way for social inequity or injustice?
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Eleanor Roosevelt worked hard for social justice.\n\nDuring Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency, Eleanor Roosevelt was an active First Lady who traveled extensively around the nation, visiting relief projects, surveying working and living conditions, and then reporting her observations to the President. She also exercised her own political and social influence; she became an advocate of the rights and needs of the poor, of minorities, and of the disadvantaged. In World War II, she visited England and the South Pacific to foster good will among the Allies and boost the morale of US servicemen overseas.
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Suppose that once upon a time there was a country where in good deeds were rewarded by a free market system with wealth, status, and power. Suppose that there was a contest between families to determine whose family could do the most good. Suppose after about 400 years most of the wealth, status and power was concentrated into the hands of those families who won this contest presumably by doing the most good. Suppose that after reviewing 400 years of history the vast majority of the inhabitants of this country realized that this contest was unfair to certain families because of their ethnic background or simply because of the colour of their skin. Suppose that for almost 300 years certain families were never compensated for the good deeds they had done because their labor was stolen from them by institutionalized slavery. Suppose that for about 100 years after that these same families were discriminated against; were denied fair and equal access to wealth, status and power; and continued to be denied the opportunity to compete fairly in the this contest to do good. Suppose that members of these very same families volunteered to serve their country in times of war and died for their country. Would you as an inhabitant of this country wish to do something to address this social injustice? Would you as an inhabitant of this country wish to win this contest to do good fair and square or would you be satisfied with being from a family that cheated by having a 400 year head start? As I understand it, Affirmative Action is doing something to address 400 years of social injustice suffered by certain families due to institutionalized slavery and or the denial of fair and equal access to wealth, status and power.
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Yes. Few people would choose to live in society and suffer discrimination. \nI have included some articles on it being an innate characteristic under sources.
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I could only agree if I were sure that anyone (black, white, rich or poor) would be treated exactly the same way.  They wouldn't be.  \n\nOf course she received preferential treatment.  \n\nThe irony is that she got upset and struck the officer because she believed that she should receive preferential treatment.  It's the old "excuse me officer...do you KNOW who I am?!" story.  When he didn't, she blew her stack and hit him.  He correctly blew the whistle on her.  \n\nOnly then did she scream racism.  But she wasn't initially upset because the officer stopped a black woman.  She was upset because he didn't give her the preferential treatment she thought she deserved.  She thinks she's "special".\n\nWhat she deserves is a good lesson in humility...from the voters in her district.
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Truman was in power to begin with and almost let the poor people starve to death during the depression.\nI am 63 and my Mother told me that during the depression the poor people almost starved to death. She and her family were poor and so were her friends and extended family , so she knows.\nAfter being elected Franklin D Roosevelt, whose family was extremely wealthy, but still had the soul to recognize that the working poor was treated very very bad and the wealty were treated extremely well.\nHe then created social security, and created the CCC's that gave jobs to those who could not find one. He was probably the first president that cared about the working poor and other less fortunates in this country. \nToo bad George Bush is attempting to undo all the good Roosevelt accomplished. George Bush is ONLY concerned about power and money and the people that have it.
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Remember what Eleanor Roosevelt said "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent"\nBelieve me, it works for this too. Any one whom you allow to take away your happiness can and will. If you give someone that much authority and are determined to fall into that trap then you will be grouching around all day.\nIf you don't allow anyone to make you feel inferior or undeserving or smthn they cannot take away your happiness..\nAt the end of the day, it is in your hands to be happy or not and how happy to be!
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Eleanor Roosevelt, my parents told me about how she did so many things to help the American people as President Roosevelt did.during the depression.She was a real Lady.courageous and intelligent. As her husband was.I have a picture of them both on my wall.People should study, remember , respect and honor our great leaders and get inspiration from there accomplishments
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the 19th amendmant was womens sufferage(right to vote)... im pretty sure it was after the war.
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Was a policy enacted by Woodrow Wilson in the World War 1 era.  It focused on national integrity, making moral decisions, and preserving peace instead of basing actions on material interests.  Was backed by William Jennings Bryant... and dealt mostly with negotiating peaceful treaties to waring nations.  \n\nInteresting enough, the policy does not work.  Wilson ended up interfering with more countries than Will Taft and Roosevelt, which is what he was coming out against.
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chica bonita, they need social upliftment. Treat humanbeings equal irrespective of colour. Scholraships should be granted for all those economically weaker section of the society irrespective of colour.
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It really depends on what point in his life you're focusing on.  Probably his most notable effort to change social conditions in the US was his editorship of The Crisis, the NAACP's journal.  In that journal, he published numerous articles and editorials against racism and segregation in America, particularly in American higher education.\n\nAlthough he was a strong supporter of HBCUs (because most white universities refused to integrate), he opposed the vocational model of education for African-Americans.  (Booker T. Washington, the founder of Tuskegee, was his opponent on this issue.)  DuBois believed that African-American students required not just job (agricultural and mechanical) training, but the opportunity to study the classical curriculum (the humanities, classical languages, the hard sciences and the social sciences).   DuBois thought that only by getting the same elite education as white Americans were afforded could African-Americans take their places as leaders in American capitalist society (doctors, lawyers, ministers, scholars, politicians, administrators, etc).\n\nLater, DuBois became disillusioned with the possibility of true racial progress in America, devoted himself to international issues of race, became a socialist, and moved to Ghana.
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She was against it\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sojourner_Truth
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Here ya go:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy_Roosevelt
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For a number of years a segment of the United States population had been unhappy with apparent industrial unsafe conditions and corruption.  Writers of the time tapped into this feeling or the people by attacking the trusts of the time primarily oil, beef and tobacco, and prison conditions, exploitation of natural resources, the tax system, the insurance industry, pensions food processing and others.\n\nPresident Teddy Roosevelt had also been on this band wagon but become upset with some of the writers as they wrote about political corruption.  In turn the writers then jumped on the President.  All of this became very public fodder for the press and other writers.  Much of this came to the fore around 1904 or so and included writings such as:\n\n•Lincoln Steffens, an investigator of corruption in state and municipal governments, published Shame of the Cities in 1904 \n•Edwin Markham published an exposé of child labor in Children in Bondage (1914) \n•Jacob Riis depicted the misery of New York City slums in How the Other Half Lives (1890), an early advocacy of urban renewal \n•Ida Tarbell wrote a series of magazine articles detailing the business practices of Standard Oil, which appeared in McClure's and later were published in book form as The History of the Standard Oil Company (1904) \n•David Graham Phillips' Cosmopolitan article, "The Treason of the Senate," a bitter indictment of political corruption, provoked President Roosevelt's wrath, but created momentum that would culminate in the adoption of the 17th Amendment (Ratified 1913)\n•Henry Demarest Lloyd's Wealth against Commonwealth (1894) chronicled the rise of John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil \n•Ray Stannard Baker examined the sad state of race relations in America in Following the Color Line (1908) \n•Brand Whitlock expressed his opposition to capital punishment in the novel The Turn of the Balance (1907), while serving as the reform mayor of Toledo, Ohio \n•Samuel Hopkins Adams won fame from his muckraking exposés of the patent medicine industry \n•Upton Sinclair's The Jungle (1906) was largely responsible for federal legislation regulating food and drug practices; he was later a failed Socialist political candidate, a founder of the American Civil Liberties Association, a prolific fiction writer and Pulitzer Prize winner. \nPublic interest in the writings of the muckrakers began to wane around 1910; however, the momentum they created would continue to influence legislation for many more years.
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WEB Dubois used his analysis of the economic and social inequalities of blacks in many areas to argue against the accomidationist lectures of BT Washington.  This set a 50 year debate about the best way to advance the cause of black people- while Washington advocated ignoring social and political equality and liberal education for economic advancement and industrial education, WEB Dubois advocated the intellectual rise of blacks and resulting social equality, reasoning that the self-respect and respect of the rest of society would further equality more rapidly.  He feared that the long-term consequences of Washington's philopophy would result in blacks becoming an physical labor underclass...better off economically but trapped by a lack of any blacks with higher education and social status.  The entire story and analysis of the conflict between these absolutely brilliant thinkers in the early 1900's is fascinating and is incredibly relevant in the modern world-I would recommend study of this to anyone who wants to understand not just the plight of African-Americans, but the social philosophy underlying the advancement of women, Jews, and immigrants, and how each group chose different paths.
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"Small minds discuss people. Average minds discuss events. Great minds discuss ideas." - Eleanor Roosevelt
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Do you mean Franklin Delanor Roosevelt?? Look him up in Wikipedia, you will get a ton of info.