I. Introduction

• •Redefining the role of "First Lady"



• •a distinguished career on her own

II. Roosevelt's career

• •Youth



• •marriage
• •Sara Roosevelt
• •Lucy Mercer
• •FDR's polio (1921)
• •Valkill and Todhunter School



• •political wife, 1911-1932



• •First Lady
• •National Youth Administration (1935)
• •NAACP and Urban League (1935-1936)
• •Marian Anderson (1939)
• •during the war



• •after FDR's death (April 1945)
• •United Nations
• •civil rights
• •Joseph McCarthy
• •Chair of President's Commission on the Status of Women (1961)

III. Conclusion

• •3 careers
• •political wife (1911-1932)
• •pioneering First Lady (1932-1945)
• •independent spokeswoman of liberal causes (1945-1962)

• •Did she change the role of the First Lady? Or might she have been even more influential if not limited by the tradition of the White House?