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‘Dear Miss Perkins’ Review: Secretary and Savior
Frances Perkins’s agenda for the Labor Department put her at odds with the country’s tradition of restrictive immigration ...
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Who Was Frances Perkins? Meet the Trailblazing Workers' Rights Advocate Whose Homestead Just Became a National Monument
The country’s newest national monument honors Frances Perkins ... was elected president in 1932, he asked Perkins to be Secretary of Labor. But before she would agree to join his cabinet ...
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Homestead of Frances Perkins, ‘a titan of Maine,’ designated national monument
Perkins was the first female Cabinet secretary and served as Labor Secretary under Franklin Roosevelt. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) President Joe Biden has designated the Frances Perkins ...
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How the Nation’s First ‘Madam Secretary’ Fought to Save Jewish Refugees Fleeing From Nazi Germany
A new book spotlights Frances Perkins’ efforts to challenge the United States’ restrictive immigration policies as President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s secretary of labor Sara Georgini ...
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Victory! President preserves the Frances Perkins Homestead in Maine as a national monument
Frances Perkins was a trailblazing woman ... specifically created to interpret women’s history. As Secretary of Labor under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt from 1933 to 1945, Perkins was the first ...
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Biden establishes a national monument for Frances Perkins, the 1st female Cabinet secretary
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has signed a proclamation establishing a national monument honoring the late FDR-era Labor Secretary Frances Perkins. Perkins was the first woman to serve ...
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Biden to establish Frances Perkins National Monument in Maine
President Joe Biden will sign a proclamation on Monday to establish the Frances ... Secretary of Labor, and the driving force behind the New Deal," according to the White House. Perkins served ...