As Eleanor Flexner explains, " It National was willing to take up the cudgels for distressed women whatever their circumstances, be they ' fallen women ,' divorce cases, or underpaid seamstresses.

As Eleanor Flexner elaborates, for instance, The Revolution " exhorted women to equip themselves to earn their own livelihood, to practice bodily hygiene in the matter of fresh air, dress, and exercise.

* Flexner, Eleanor.

* Flexner, Eleanor.

In 1959, three landmark books on women were published: " A Century of Struggle " by Eleanor Flexner, the first professional history of the 19th century women's movement, which contained an implicit call to arms ; " A Century of Higher Education for American Women " by Mabel Newcomer, which disclosed that the relative position of women in the academic world was in decline ; and " Women and Work In America " by Robert Smuts, which drew attention to the fact that " the picture of women's occupations outside the home between 1890 and 1950 had changed in only a few essentials.

* Flexner, Eleanor.

* Flexner, Eleanor.

In 1900 Noguchi moved to the United States, where he obtained a job as a research assistant with Dr. Simon Flexner at the University of Pennsylvania and later at the Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research.

The Commission's members had included both William Welch, the first Dean of the Johns Hopkins Medical School and Simon Flexner and the China Medical Board modeled the school after Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine following the recommendations of the Flexner Report which set the foundation of modern Medical Education in the United States and Canada.

The Flexner Report is a book-length study of medical education in the United States and Canada, written by the professional educator Abraham Flexner and published in 1910 under the aegis of the Carnegie Foundation.

When Flexner researched his report, only 16 out of 155 medical schools in the United States and Canada required applicants to have completed two or more years of university education ( p 28 ).

His Flexner Report, published in 1910, reformed medical education in the United States.

* Flexner, S. B. and Wentworth, H., A Dictionary of American Slang ; ( Macmillan, 1960 ) ISBN 9998065100

Eleanor of Castile: Queen and Society in Thirteenth Century England

When the name was being selected for the new high school, the final two remaining choices were Century and Eleanor Roosevelt.

The concept of the Four Freedoms became part of the personal mission undertaken by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt regarding her inspiration behind the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, General Assembly Resolution 217A.

Charles Malik, Lebanese philosopher and diplomat, called it " an international document of the first order of importance ," while Eleanor Roosevelt, first chairwoman of the Commission on Human Rights ( CHR ) that drafted the Declaration, stated that it " may well become the international Magna Carta of all men everywhere.

* Text, Audio, and Video excerpt of Eleanor Roosevelt's Address to the United Nations on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

* Text, Audio, and Video excerpt of Eleanor Roosevelt's Address to the United Nations on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

In 1980, the United States Treasury Department coined a half-ounce gold commemorative medal with her likeness, and in 1984 she was the first recipient of the Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award of the City of New York.

Eleanor Roosevelt headed the UN Commission on Human Rights at this location.

In April 2011, the same month in which the first Irish civil partnerships took place under the Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010, Irish state broadcaster RTE broadcast a 45-minute radio documentary about the lives of Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby entitled " An Extraordinary Affair ".

Voting rights for women were introduced into international law by the United Nations ' Human Rights Commission, whose elected chair was Eleanor Roosevelt.

Ralph Bunche along with Eleanor Roosevelt were considered instrumental in the creation and adoption of the UN Declaration of Human Rights.

* Eleanor Roosevelt, president of the Commission on Human Rights ( posthumous award ) ( USA )

Juanita Craft became a towering historic figure in the Civil Rights Movement in Texas and was given many awards for her efforts, including the NAACP Golden Heritage Life Membership Award in 1978, the Eleanor Roosevelt Humanitarian Award in 1984, and she was recognized by the NAACP for her fifty years of service shortly before her death at the age of 83 on August 6, 1985.

Eleanor Roosevelt College is also the sponsor of the International Migration Studies and Human Rights minors.

Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton in the House introduced the District of Columbia House Voting Rights Act of 2009 ( and ).

In December 1999 she was selected by United States President Bill Clinton as a recipient of the Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights.

The Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights was established in 1998 by the President of the United States Bill Clinton, honoring outstanding American promoters of rights in the United States.

The award was first awarded on the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, honoring Eleanor Roosevelt's role as the " driving force " in the development of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

In 2005 the American Rights at Work organization, issued the Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award.

* Fact Sheet: Human Rights Day 1999, Eleanor Roosevelt Award, December 6, 1999

* Fact Sheet: Human Rights Day: The Eleanor Roosevelt Award, December 6, 2000

* Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Awards

Glendon is the author of Rights Talk ; A Nation Under Lawyers, and A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

In an episode of Wings, titled " Ladies Who Lunch ", which originally aired on November 21, 1991, Faye Cochran ( Rebecca Schull ) has a streak of touching every First Lady of the United States from Eleanor Roosevelt to Barbara Bush.

Founding a Wiccan group known as the Bricket Wood coven, he introduced a string of High Priestesses into the religion, including Doreen Valiente, Lois Bourne, Patricia Crowther and Eleanor Bone, through which the Gardnerian community spread throughout Britain and subsequently into Australia and the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Thomas and the White House Peace Vigil has inspired Eleanor Holmes Norton to introduce the Nuclear Disarmament and Economic Conversion Act, that would require the United States to disable and dismantle its nuclear weapons when all other nations possessing nuclear weapons do likewise.

* 1884 – Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States and humanitarian ( d. 1962 )

Theodore Roosevelt was distantly related by birth to the 32nd president of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt ( they were fifth cousins ), and he was the uncle of Franklin D. Roosevelt's wife, Eleanor Roosevelt.

Well known members of the Commission included Eleanor Roosevelt of the United States, who was the Chairperson, Jacques Maritain, René Cassin and Stéphane Hessel of France, Charles Malik of Lebanon, and P. C. Chang of the Republic of China, among others.

Eleanor Roosevelt supported the adoption of the UDHR as a declaration rather than as a treaty, because she believed that it would have the same kind of influence on global society as the United States Declaration of Independence had within the United States.

* November 7 – Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States ( b. 1884 )

** Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of the United States ( d. 1962 )

Upon seeing Iguazu, the United States ' First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt reportedly exclaimed " Poor Niagara!

On March 16, 1751, James Madison, the fourth President of the United States, was born in Port Conway in southern King George County at Belle Grove plantation, the childhood home of his mother, Eleanor Rose " Nellie " Conway, the daughter of its owner, Francis Conway, for whom Port Conway was named.

* Eleanor Mariano, retired USN Rear Admiral and physician to the President of the United States at the White House for 9 years.

Residents of the town successfully petitioned then-First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, however, pointing out that Dandridge was the only town in the United States named for the wife of George Washington.

Notable descendants include Presidents of the United States George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush, the entire Fish and Kean families, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady of New York Anna Morton, actors Montgomery Clift and Michael Douglas, actress Jane Wyatt, poet Robert Lowell, cinematographer Floyd Crosby, his son David Crosby, author Wolcott Gibbs, and almost the entire Astor family.

Beach was born in her father's parsonage in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, on March 14, 1887, the second of three daughters of Sylvester Beach and Eleanor Thomazine Orbison.

Eleanor Rosalynn Carter ( born Eleanor Rosalynn Smith ; August 18, 1927 ) is the wife of the former President of the United States Jimmy Carter and in that capacity served as the First Lady of the United States from 1977 to 1981.