Eleanor Roosevelt Tea Towel

At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom from want — for these are things that must be gained in peace as well as in war. So wrote Eleanor Roosevelt in her newspaper column, My Day, in 1943. She was the longest serving First Lady of the United States, and she made the most of it. A particularly outspoken First Lady, she significantly defined the role of her office for her successors, often taking Franklin Roosevelt& place at public events due to his disability. She also held regular press conferences, many of which were women-only: a radical demand at a time when women journalists had traditionally been excluded from serious media events. By hosting these, papers were pressured into hiring more women reporters, pushing for equality in the profession.