The story Frances Perkins, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Labor Secretary, highlights the importance of protecting due process.

Like others in her extended family, Frances Perkins spent summers in Newcastle. The national monument designation recognizes Perkins as the first woman to serve in a presidential Cabinet and for ...

Frances Perkins’s agenda for the Labor Department put her at odds with the country’s tradition of restrictive immigration legislation.

Frances Perkins was a trailblazer whose legacy during the New Deal ... President Franklin Delano Roosevelt from 1933 to 1945 — the first woman to serve in a Cabinet position — she formulated policies ...

Summoned: Frances Perkins and the General Welfare is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV ...

Frances Perkins was a trailblazing woman whose legacy continues to ... Perkins was the first woman to serve in a presidential cabinet. A driving force behind the New Deal, she formulated policies and ...

Guest speakers are Giovanna Gray Lockhart, executive director of the Frances Perkins ... present an overview of Perkins (the first woman to serve in a U.S. presidential cabinet), who was secretary ...