While it wasn't always welcomed or popular, Eleanor advocated for women's rights, racial equality and the elimination of segregation in America. She traveled to the Tuskegee Airbase to shine light on African-American military pilots and visited the South Pacific as a moral-building tour, visiting thousands of wounded soldiers. After Franklin's death, Harry Truman appointed Eleanor as the first United States Representative to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights where she successfully lobbied for the passage of the UN Declaration of Human Rights.
Eleanor's self-assurance and positive personality belied her sad and difficult childhood. Eleanor's early years were punctuated by the tragic deaths of her mother, father and brother, and her strict upbringing by a domineering Grandmother. But despite heartbreak, hardships and unexpected challenges, Eleanor grew to be one most respected women of her time. Eleanor met challenges head on, from stepping in to make campaign speeches for Franklin when he as stricken with polio, to meeting with world leaders in pursuit of her own worthy causes including Global Health and Wellness and Human Rights initiatives.