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- 1947 | Succesfully urges the US Army Nurse Corps to to admit black women. Addresses the nation on V-J day. Becomes a member of the NAACP board of directors. Appointed as special US delegate to the United Nations. Becomes member of the National Council of Negro Women. Declines to run for New York Senator, New York Governor and for Director of the National Citizens Political Action Committee. Lobbies for price and rent controls. Writes What Are We For?.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt dies in in Warm Springs, Georgia. Eleanor tells the press the story is over.
Co-chairs the investigation committee for race riots in Columbia, Tennessee. Unanimously elected as head of the United Nations Human Rights Commission. Chairs the UN Committee on Human, Social and Cultural Concerns and the UN Committee on Economic and Social Concerns. Visits refugee camps. Co-creates the Americans for Democratic Action ADA liberal group for social reform and resistance against Russia in the Cold War. Debates Andrei Vishinski, the head of the Soviet delegation about the World War II refugees repatriation. The General Assembly agrees with Eleanor Roosevelt. Eleanor is seen in this time as the world's foremost spokesperson on human rights. Writes Why I Do Not Choose to Run and Human Rights and Human Freedom.
Addresses the NAACP annual conference at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC stressing the need for international civil rights. Starts drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as chairwoman to the UN Human Rights Commission. Opposes the Truman Doctrine. Supports the Marshall Plan. Endorses a separate Jewish state. Sterns strong disapproval of Henry Wallace's Progressive Citizens of America movement. Writes The Russians Are Tough and Should a Negro Boy Ask a White Girl to Dance.
| Bibliography of Timeline of Eleanor Roosevelt 7 Emblidge, D (2001). My Day: Best of ER's Newspaper Columns, 1936 - 1962.
Thompson, G (2004). Who Was ER?
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