What roles did Eleanor Roosevelt contribute to during world war 2?

Answer 1

Eleanor Roosevelt was the champion of the blacks and women. She pushed to have working rights for the blacks and the women to be able to work in the war armament manufacturing companies and other jobs to keep the people working, such as driving buses in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. She helped them to secure jobs in the Detroit factories building planes. Many people do not realize she had to influence FDR and the Washington DC. political machine to get on the stick and let the blacks work in the military and in war jobs. She had to help the black women get jobs working in the war armament places and other businesses. Many black women had lost their positions as paid home workers. She helped them on an individual basis and mass basis. She also was a big promoter of Red Cross, The War Bonds, and the women on the home front. She influenced the government to take as many women as possible to work in the armed forces in positions traditionally done by men only. She was a very formidable woman who was very forward thinking and acting.

Answer 2

Oveta Culp Hobby helped to set up the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps known as the WAAC. She became the Commanding officer of the WAAC. Her full story is on the link below.

Eleanor Roosevelt impacted the blacks lives by helping them to get into infantry combat positions, tank battalions and combat airmen positions. She also influenced her husband to have a law passed that would force the war plants and businesses and civil government jobs to hire blacks. In the end ninety percent of the war plants jobs were held by minorities and women. If it had not been for them the war could not have been won.