This first head of the UN Civil Rights Commission intervened to allow Marian Anderson to perform at the Lincoln Memorial.
After becoming concerned about unemployment near her vacation home, she founded the nonprofit furniture factory Val-Kill Industries. She taught at the Todhunter School for Girls in the 1920's and took a prominent role in the labor movement by founding the Women's Trade Union League. Also active as a journalist, she produced a syndicated newspaper column until 1962 entitled "My Day". This first head of the UN Civil Rights Commission intervened to allow Marian Anderson to perform at the Lincoln Memorial. FTP, name this First Lady of the United States from 1932 to 1945.
After becoming concerned about unemployment near her vacation home, she founded the nonprofit furniture factory Val-Kill Industries.
Eleanor Roosevelt [prompt on Roosevelt]