Resources
Teachers Guide and Bibliography
Primary and Secondary Source Material on Frances Perkins
American Jewish History – Frances Perkins and the German-Jewish Refugees
Columbia University’s Oral History from FP
Exhibit at Columbia’s Rare Book and Manuscipt Library
Cornell University, ILR School – Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project at GWU
George Mason University history course – letters to FP
Homestead, PA’s historic marker for FP
Mount Holyoke College’s Frances Perkins Program
NPR – Penny Colman and Linda Wertheimer – Remembering Social Security’s Forgotten Shepherd
Social Security Administration – Committee on Economic Security Report
Social Security Administration – who’s who at the signing of the Social Security Act of 1935
U.S. Department of Labor essay on the New Deal & WWII period (1933 – 1945)
Wikipedia entry on Frances Perkins
Documents Related to Frances Perkins’ Career
Factory investigating Committee records at the New York State archives
President Carter’s dedication statement in 1980
Wirtz Library at the Department of Labor
Audio Files
FP’s 1964 lecture at Cornell and others’ oral histories on the Triangle Factory Fire
FP’s remarks at the 25th anniversary (1960) of Social Security
FP’s 1935 radio address: Should we plan for Social Security?
FP’s 1962 speech “Roots of Social Security” at SSA headquarters
FP’s remarks on the importance of the IBM machine – about one minute*
Videos Related to Frances Perkins’ Career
Video of FP’s life by Vineyard Video
Kirstin Downey on the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire – American Experience, PBS
Kirstin Downey talking about her book, The Woman Behind the New Deal on Thirteen, WNET NYC
Collections of Frances Perkins’ Papers
Frances Perkins Collection – Mount Holyoke College
Finding Aid to Frances Perkins Collection — Columbia University
Selected Biographical Pieces about Frances Perkins
Obituary – The New York Times, Author unknown
Frances Perkins’s Career Memorialized by Charles Wyzanski, May 15, 1965
“The Frances Perkins I Knew” by Christopher N. Breiseth
“Frances Perkins: Private Faith, Public Policy” by Michelle Kew
Cornell University, ILR School – Who was Frances Perkins?
Social Security Administration’s background on Frances Perkins
U.S. Department of Labor biography
The Woman Nobody Knows by Jerry Kluttz and Herbert Asbury
Written by Frances Perkins
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
People at Work by Frances Perkins, 1934
Social Security Administration – Committee on Economic Security Report
Bibliography
The Woman Behind the New Deal, by Kirstin Downey, 2009
Frances Perkins: First Woman Cabinet Member, by Emily Keller, 2006
Frances Perkins: Champion of the New Deal, by Naomi Pasachoff, 2000
A Woman Unafraid: The Achievements of Frances Perkins, by Penny Colman, 1993
Frances Perkins: That Woman in FDR’s Cabinet, by Lillian Holmen Mohr, 1979
Madam Secretary Frances Perkins: by George Martin, 1976
Frances Perkins: A member of the Cabinet, by Bill Severn, 1976
Frances Perkins, First Lady of the Cabinet, by Don Lawson, 1966
Other Websites of Interest
National New Deal Preservation Association
Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site