Photograph of Eleanor Roosevelt at a U.N. for Human Right Commission Meeting
Eleanor Roosevelt at United Nations for Human Rights Commission meeting in Lake Success, New York (1947).
Photograph from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library.
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