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At 470 West Boylston St., the library branch is named for Frances Perkins, the first woman to serve in a presidential Cabinet, as labor secretary under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Stephanie Dray: I knew that Frances Perkins and FDR had a working partnership that changed the history of the world, but I had no idea until writing this book that the relationship started off so ...
Frances Perkins was the first woman to serve in a U.S. president’s Cabinet, as Secretary of Labor under Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1933 to 1945, and is recognized as the driving force behind ...
Biden establishes a national monument for Frances Perkins, the 1st female Cabinet secretary FILE - Former Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins chats with reporters in New York, Nov. 27, 1945, as she ...
Former Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins chats with reporters in New York, Nov. 27, 1945. (Harry Harris/AP) President Joe Biden on Monday designated a new national monument in Newcastle, Maine ...
President Biden is set to designate a national monument in Maine commemorating pioneering former Labor Secretary Frances Perkins, who served as the nation’s first woman Cabinet secretary under ...
In 1994, the public library branch in Greendale, one of three branches built in the early 1900s with money from Andrew Carnegie, was renamed in honor of Frances Perkins. In 2020, the Perkins family, ...
Biden will sign a presidential proclamation designating the Frances Perkins National Monument in Newcastle to honor the historic contributions of the first woman Cabinet secretary and the longest ...
President Biden will today designate the Frances Perkins Homestead National Historic Landmark in Newcastle, Maine as the newest national monument. Utilizing his executive authority under the ...
Frances Perkins was the first woman to serve as a Cabinet secretary, the longest serving secretary of Labor, and the leading architect of the New Deal, according to a White House fact sheet ...