In 1968, Eleanor Roosevelt was posthumously awarded the UN Human Rights Prize and in 1998, the United Nations Association of the USA inaugurated the Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award.

The woman with the “perplexed look” was Mittie Roosevelt, mother to the 26th president and grandmother to future first lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Mittie was home with four children, all but one ...

She added her children also attended the Eleanor Roosevelt School until it closed. Also at the event was Cecelia M. Dean, who taught elementary and middle school students at the Eleanor Roosevelt ...

Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt were married on March 17th, 1905, ... By 1908, the Roosevelts already had two children. Here they are in 1908, with one-year-old James, left, ...

Eleanor Roosevelt persisted, especially when the issue involved children, and so she supported the failed Wagner-Rogers Bill to admit 20,000 children after the November 1938 pogroms, commonly ...

How Eleanor Roosevelt’s leadership made her the “First Lady of the World.” The statue of first lady Eleanor Roosevelt stands before the United Nations emblem at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt ...

Former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and her teenage granddaughter, Nina Gibson, board a plan for a five-week tour of the Middle East. (Courtesy/SUNY Press) On rainy days at Val-Kill Cottage in ...