Perkins served as labor secretary under President Franklin D. Roosevelt and played a key role in shaping his programs that helped Americans recover from the Great Depression, including advocating ...

Frances Perkins, 'The Woman Behind the New Deal' Let's travel back to Tuesday, March 7, 1933. Newly elected President Franklin Roosevelt had just called his Cabinet together for the first time.

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 ...

When Roosevelt became president in 1933, he appointed Perkins labor secretary — the culmination of decades of work by progressive women’s reform movements. During her 12-year tenure at the Department ...

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 former ...

Frances Perkins, 10 Apr 1880 - 14 May 1965 Exhibition Label Born Boston, Massachusetts A longtime labor advocate and social reformer, Frances Perkins was the first woman appointed to a presidential ...

Frances Perkins was America’s first female member of a presidential cabinet, serving as the secretary of labor throughout Franklin Roosevelt’s 12-year presidency. Her legacies include the 40 ...

The unlikely partnership between Frances Perkins and Roosevelt was instrumental in bringing about one of the New Deal’s earliest creations, the Civilian Conservation Corps.

NEWCASTLE, Maine (AP) — Maine leaders want to honor Frances Perkins — the first woman to serve in a presidential Cabinet-level position and a driving force behind the New Deal ...