Eleanor Roosevelt's Impact On Society

Eleanor Roosevelt was born to Elliott Bulloch Roosevelt and Anna Hall Roosevelt in 1884. Eleanor believed she was the ugly duckling out of the three children and doubted if she would ever amount to much. However with encouragement from her Uncle Theodore Roosevelt and her Aunt Anna “Bamie” Roosevelt, she decided to attend a private finishing school. At the finishing school, she not only received a superb education but gained self-confidence from her teachers and classmates. At the age of twenty-one, she married her fifth cousin, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Her husband became President of the United States in 1933, which helped Eleanor become a well-known political figure for the rest of her life. Despite her liberal views, she helped the country