Eleanor Roosevelt Holding the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Spanish
11/1949
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Eleanor Roosevelt considered her role in creating the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights her greatest achievement. Her work for the United Nations and on President Kennedy’s Commission on the Status of Women were two things that she focused her energy on after she left the White House. This photograph was taken in Lake Success, New York, at the temporary home of the United Nations.
This primary source comes from the Collection FDR-PHOCO: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Public Domain Photographs.
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195981Full Citation: Photograph PHOCO-A-57697; Eleanor Roosevelt and United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Spanish text; 11/1949; Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Public Domain Photographs, 1882 - 1962; Collection FDR-PHOCO: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Public Domain Photographs; Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, NY. [Online Version, https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/eleanor-roosevelt-declaration-human-rights-spanish, May 4, 2024]