Frances Perkins Center - Links

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Our heartfelt thanks to each organization that has maintained a solid presence for Frances Perkins on the websites listed below...

President Carter's dedication statement in 1980

FP's remarks at the 25th anniversary of Social Security - 11 minutes or so*
FP's remarks on the importance of the IBM machine - about one minute*
FP's 1935 radio address: Should we plan for Social Security?
FP's 1962 speech "Roots of Social Security" at SSA headquarters

* (These files require "Real Player" or another program to handle "ram" files

Frances Perkins Collection - Mount Holyoke College

Frances Perkins: First Woman Cabinet Member, by Emily Keller, 2006
Frances Perkins: Champion of the New Deal, by Namoi Pasachoff, 2000
Madam Secretary Frances Perkins: a Biography of America's First Woman Cabinet Member, by George Martin, 1976
Frances Perkins: That Woman in FDR's Cabinet, by Lillian Holmen Mohr, 1979
Frances Perkins, First Lady of the Cabinet, by Don Lawson, 1966
Frances Perkins: A member of the Cabinet, by Bill Severn, 1976
The Woman Behind the New Deal, by Kirstin Downey, 2009

Al Smith: hero of the cities: A political portrait drawing on the papers of Frances Perkins, by Matthew Josephson
The Roosevelt I Knew, by Frances Perkins, 1947

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