Eleanor Roosevelt Was Born in Essay

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Eleanor was an activist for civil and women rights, in American political scenario, we have experienced the imbalanced gender ration in the house of congress, the states representatives in their various capacities, may be if Eleanor were alive today, we would not have seen this gender parity that exists. The issues pertaining to the civil rights would have been addressed more readily and respect would have been accorded to the various people who have now and then tried to move with the same spirit, issues of assassination would never have experience as a result of lobbying for civil rights, for instance, the death of Edgar Evers assassination in the year 1962 which saw more than 200,000 civil rights protester march in Washington. Perhaps many women leaders would have risen, with her support and her role of lobbying for women in their various capacities. The passing of civil rights act would have come much earlier, given that her impact contributed to the passage of this act, however, late it was leaders such as Martin Luther King would have been empowered to carry on with the work even with a lot of vigour and power. The rights of voting regardless of the race or the gender would have been illegalised much earlier than 1965.

Eleanor fought for the freedom of the African-American people, suppose she lived to see the events unfolding today, she would have been so proud of the development by this particular community in the United States. However, these events may have unfolded much earlier given that she served at a higher capacity, she was a strong woman who always stood for what was right, despite the views of other people who went contrary to her. The assassination of the African-American activists and leaders such as Malcolm X and Martin Luther King would never have happened as they would have been under her umbrella, and the protection of the state, the white society would have seen the need to work together with the black society without discrimination, all through her support and her footsteps.
The introduction of black power introduced by Stokely Carmichael, may have arrived earlier with her support, the state laws that barred inter- racial marriage would have been abolished way before 1967, we must however appreciate her effort in abolishing these laws that came to be enacted even after her death, and that saw, Thurgood Marshall become the first Black American to be appointed to the supreme court by Texan President Lyndon Johnson (Pearson & Martin, 2007). If Eleanor had lived to date, we would have experienced an influx of more women taking part in politics and political processes, as she would have pushed on her work of teaching the women on these issues pertaining to politics, we would have had more organisations lobbying for the rights of women and more women being active in their own capacities.

In conclusion, President Barrack Obama would have been a president long before this error, as enlightenment about race and racism would have been addressed decades before today. Integration of the white, Mexican, Indian and the African-American people would have been dealt with before seventies or eighties......

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