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Index
About Facing History and Ourselves
Acknowledgments
Preface
Foreword
Part I: Who was Eleanor Roosevelt?
Introduction
Self-Annihilation
No Ordinary Life
Eleanor and Franklin
Independence
Women in Power
First Lady
A Utopia Softly Sketched
Racial Awkwardness
“A…Mother Hen for All Rescue Agencies”
“Paper Walls”
Japanese Internment Camps
DOCUMENT 1: Becoming Eleanor
DOCUMENT 2: Refusing to Be “Frozen Out”
DOCUMENT 3: “The Basic Thing We Must Do Is to Stop Generalizing about People”
DOCUMENT 4: Marian Anderson and the Daughters of the American Revolution
DOCUMENT 5: Eleanor and the Jewish Refugee Crisis (1939)
PART II: World War II and the Birth of the United Nations
“What Are You Fighting For?”
A Lasting Peace
United Nations
“I Did Not Know Until I Saw”35
Hope and Rehabilitation
DOCUMENT 1: “How Much Democracy Do We Want?”
DOCUMENT 2: The “Four Freedoms” Speech
DOCUMENT 3: Eleanor and Wartime Race Riots
DOCUMENT 4: The Atlantic Charter
DOCUMENT 5: The United Nations Charter
DOCUMENT 6: “Naturally They Want to Go to Palestine”
DOCUMENT 7: Eleanor’s Visits to the Displaced Persons Camps
PART III: Negotiating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Undertaking a New Mission
Individual and Society
A Tea Party with a Theme: How Universal Is Universal?
Beyond National Sovereignty: How to Protect Citizens From Their Own Government
Civil Rights as Human Rights
The Politics of Words
Adoption
DOCUMENT 1: Documents Reviewed by the Drafting Committee
DOCUMENT 2: The Individual or Society: The Human Rights Commission Debates
DOCUMENT 3: Statement on Human Rights by the American Anthropological Association
DOCUMENT 4: The Human Rights Commission and Blacks in America
DOCUMENT 5: Social and Economic Rights: Eleanor’s Speech at the Sorbonne
DOCUMENT 6: Magna Carta for Mankind
PART IV: The UDHR and its Legacy
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The Iron Curtain
“Where Do Human Rights Begin?”
Human Rights at Home
DOCUMENT 1: Drafting the Preamble
DOCUMENT 2: Reflections on Human Rights
DOCUMENT 3: Making History
Timeline
Index
Credits
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