| Activity | Eleanor Roosevelt and Dorothy first met when they were pupils, though not classmates, at the Roser School (Frederic Roser was an Englishman who held classes for young girls in the homes of wealthy New Yorkers). Both Eleanor and Dorothy were from similar backgrounds and both rebelled against the traditional patterns of their social set to become active in social reform, women's trade unions and the suffragette movement. They became and remained good friends. In 1905 Eleanor married her distant cousin Franklin D Roosevelt and on his becoming President of the US in 1933 she proved herself a considerable power in her own right. After his death and the end of the war, she continued in public affairs, being appointed a delegate to the first UN General Assembly and later to the UN Human Rights Commission. |