Eleanor Roosevelt:
A Timeline
1884 * October 11 - Eleanor Roosevelt is born to Anna Hall and Elliot Roosevelt.
1892 * December 7 - Eleanor's mother dies
1892 * Eleanor and her brothers move in with their grandmother Hall.
1894 * August 13 - Eleanor's father dies.
1899 * Eleanor travels to England to attend Allenswood School.
1902 * Eleanor's grandmother makes her leave Allenswood to return to New York City for her social debut.
1905 * March 17 - Eleanor and Franklin Delano Roosevelt are married.
1912 * Eleanor attends her first Democratic Party Convention.
1913 * Autumn - Eleanor and FDR move to Washington, DC.
1918 * Eleanor works with the Red Cross and the Navy Department to help American Servicemen in World War I.
1919 * Eleanor volunteers at St. Elizabeth Hospital, visiting shell-shocked World War I veterans.
1919 * Eleanor volunteers as a translator at International Congress of Working Women in Washington.
1920 * Eleanor joins in FDR's campaign after his failed bid for Vice President with James Cox.
1920 * Eleanor joins the League of Women Voters and advocates for women's political gains.
1920 * Eleanor becomes friends with Louis Howe, an advisor to FDR. He teachers her speech techniques and she delivers her first speech in front of the League of Women Voters.
1921 * FDR contracts a very serious case of polio.
1921 * Eleanor, who was once very shy, begins making speeches and appearances representing the Democratic Party.
1922 * Eleanor joins the Women's Division of the Democratic State Committee and becomes acquainted with Marion Dickerman and Nancy Cook, who are both activists in the Democratic Party.
1922 * Eleanor writes, "Why I Am a Democrat" for the League of Women's Voters.
1922 * Eleanor becomes a member of the Women's Trade Union League.
1924 * August - The idea of Val-Kill is brought up at a picnic. FDR suggests that Eleanor and her friends have a cottage built so they can enjoy Val-Kill year round.
1926 * FDR designs a Stone Cottage with architect Toombs at Val-Kill . An experimental furniture crafts business is initiated with friend Caroline O'Day.
1926 * Eleanor purchases Todhunter School, in New York City, with Marion Dickerman and Nancy Cooke, where she teaches history and government.
1927 * Eleanor be friends Mary McLeod Bethune, who is the president of Bethune-Cookman College. McLeod helps Eleanor to understand the issues and condition pertaining to black people.
1928 * Eleanor is named the director of Bureau of Women's Activities of the Democratic National Committee.
1928 * Eleanor writes the article "Women Must Learn to Play the Game as Men Do" in Redbook magazine to tell women that they should become "political bosses"
1932 * Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected President of the United States making Eleanor First Lady.
1933 * Eleanor becomes the first wife of a President to hold all-female press conferences. Also initiates a project for coal miners in West Virginia.
1934 * Eleanor assists with the formation of the National Youth Administration; coordinates a meeting between FDR and NAACP leader, Walter White, to discuss anti-lynching legislation.
1935 * Eleanor begins publishing column, "My Day."1936 * FDR wins re-election.
1939 * Eleanor disregards segregation laws at a conference for Human Welfare in Alabama where she sits in the aisle between black and whites.
1940 * Eleanor makes an impromptu speech at the Democratic National Convention, helping FDR win a third term in office.
1941-1949 * Eleanor writes monthly Q&A column for the Ladies Home Journal.
1943 * Eleanor tours South Pacific during WWII to boost soldiers morale.
1945 * Eleanor influences Army Nurse Corp. to open membership to black women and joins NAACP Board of Directors.
1945 *April 12 - FDR dies.
1945 * Eleanor is appointed by President Truman as a delegate to the United Nations General Assembly.
1945 * Eleanor helps found UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fund.1948 * Eleanor helps to draft the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which affirmed life, liberty, and equality internationally for all people regardless of sex, race, creed, and color.
1949-1962 * Eleanor writes monthly Q&A column for McCall's.
1950 * Eleanor writes book This I Remember.
1953 * Eleanor resigns as a delegate to the United Nations General Assembly and volunteers her services to the American Association for the United Nations.
1953 * Eleanor becomes the American representative to the World Federation of the United Nations Associations.
1953 * Eleanor becomes chairperson of the Associations' Board of Directors.1958 * Eleanor writes book On My Own.
1961 * Eleanor is reappointed to the United Nations General Assembly by President Kennedy.
1961 * Kennedy appoints her as a member of the National Advisory Committee of the Peace Corps and Chairman of President's Commission on the Status of Women.
1961 * Eleanor continues to travel and speak in places such as Russia, Japan, Israel and India, visiting poor people and government leaders after her retirement from the U.N.1962 * Eleanor lives at Val-Kill. She also has an apartment in NYC, where she dies on November 7th.
1963 * Tomorrow is Now is published posthumously.
