Women Involved During World War II
Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt was born in 1884 and died on 1962, she was the wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt the U.S. president from 1933 to 1945. Eleanor was involved in humanitarian causes through her life. She was delegated to the United Nations and served as an advocate for human rights issues and remained active in the democratic causes until her death at 78. During World War II she advocated on the European refugees who wanted to come to the United States. She also promoted issues that were important to American troops she worked to boost soldiers morale encouraged volunteerism on the home front and got women employed in the defense industry
Mary Anderson
Mary Anderson was born in Lidkoping, Sweden in 1872. Mary became a leader in the women’s trade union league in Chicago Illinois. She then applied the skills she learned to work with the women’s bureau in the U.S. department of labor which she was the first director in 1920. During World War II she continued to fight for the rights for women.
History.com Staff. "Eleanor Roosevelt." History.com. A&E Television Networks, 2009. Web. 27 Apr. 2016.
· Woman At Work: The Autobiography of Mary Anderson as Told to Mary N. Winslow (Minneapolis,MN: Minnesota Historical Society Press. 1951)
Riley Simmons
· Woman At Work: The Autobiography of Mary Anderson as Told to Mary N. Winslow (Minneapolis,MN: Minnesota Historical Society Press. 1951)
Riley Simmons