What Are Eleanor Roosevelt's Accomplishments

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Until the Civil Rights Movement, many Negro men, women, and children were required to comply with the heavily institutionalized laws of discrimination and forced to suffer from inequity in America. Eleanor Roosevelt legitimized the rights of African Americans by playing a fundamental role in a number of events that led to the Civil Rights Movement. Her accomplishments include improving the safety for Negroes through her activism against attacks on Negroes, encouraging Negroes to get an education, and educating the whites about Negroes. Eleanor Roosevelt focused on equal rights for all American citizens, and by providing social justice to black citizens greatly ameliorated the quality of the education and expanded job opportunities for African