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Eleanor Roosevelt Eleanor Roosevelt was married to FDR and was the first lady that made a new expectation of their roles. Eleanor was a bold first lady and she was extremely into politics and speaking her voice to the public. She had press conferences and even wrote a newspaper column. The newspaper column focussed on helping racial discrimination and to advocate and help the poor people. She was cheated on many times because FDR has a lot of affairs with other women. They stayed married because divorce wasn't very popular during that time, but their relationship consisted of mostly all politics. Soon after her FDR died of a cerebral hemorrhage which caused him to die almost instantly. Even after FDR died she served for the United Nations where she focused on human rights and women's issues.She also traveled abroad to visit U.S troops. A lot of people favored her decision to be different and share her voice but many thought that it was not her role to speak out as the first lady. This can tie to todays society because we have a woman running for president and that our society has come a long way from where we were with discrimination.

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