Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt reshaped the public role of the American first lady and continued her work as a diplomat, columnist and human-rights advocate after leaving the White House. As chair of the United Nations commission that drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, she helped turn a global ideal into a shared standard.

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