Eleanor Roosevelt's Involvement In Politics

Think back in the 1900’s many years ago, and imagine a first lady participating in politics- unbelievable right. It is very unlikely that women in history were involved in politics. Eleanor Roosevelt made women being involved in politics a challenge and took it to a whole new level by participating in many events that you’ll be astonished and inspired by. Eleanor Roosevelt, during her time as the U.S. first lady, played a huge role in history that was influential on other women who were afraid to speak up for their undeniable rights. Many women believed they should stay quiet considering that may be how men portrayed women at that time. Men were taught to be the successors. However, Eleanor Roosevelt proved them wrong by being involved in the
She and the other members learned that the quickest way to admit refugees children to America was through temporary visitor visa’s. Although, they had to promise to return the children to their home when it was safe to come back. The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) implied that they “chose children, both Jewish and non-Jewish, from children's homes and refugee camps in southern France for transfer to the United States” (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). This shows that whoever was under Hitler’s persecution was brought to safety due to proper actions taken. The AFSC was a great help for the increase of children’s safety. To conclude, Eleanor with her many efforts, succeeded in this difficult transportation. As a result, She rescued 800 children to settle in their new home in the U.S. In 1943, several hundred Jewish children were saved in total. Eleanor “used her influence (upon Franklin) to create a refugee center called Fort Ontario in Oswego, NY where refugees numbering about 1,000 leaving from Belgium were settled” (Zik). This tells us that Eleanor Roosevelt was very caring of the refugees to have built a place specifically for them. She has done so much to save the lives of the refugees. She was very influential in order to get things the way she wanted done. Therefore makes her a
She put a lot of effort into assisting the Jews in the Wagner Act, which was sponsored by senator Wagner, who was named after the Wagner Act. Roosevelt, the senator and other participants tried to immigrate 20,000 Jewish children under the age of 14 before the Shoah, another name for Holocaust. However, the Wagner effort was not successful because the anti-immigration lobby was too strong at that period of time. Another thing worth mentioning after she visited the refugees camps, was that Roosevelt “further made a public appearance recorded in her column My Day, which heightened US awareness of the Jewish genocide by Hitler’s regime” (Zik). Eleanor Roosevelt consistently puts the problems of the refugees to mind and spread it’s issues to the public as a reminder that they need to do something about this situation. Roosevelt called forth the refugees as “the greatest victims of the war”(Zik). whom, she described were tortured greatly. Roosevelt knew the Jewish children were suffering and worked to change that, by doing whatever was needed to help out the refugees. Roosevelt “imposed upon both Truman and Marshall to exert pressure on the British to allow Jewish immigration to Palestine” (Zik). This tells us Eleanor Roosevelt fought hard for the Jewish immigration to Palestine, one of the only places who noticed the endangered lives of the Jewish refugees. Eleanor Roosevelt did