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

D.C. reporters thronged around Frances Perkins, the newly appointed secretary of labor under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It had been a hard first day, full of taxi delays and a rushed first ...

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

In this extended interview Downey discusses Frances Perkins, a labor rights activist, close friend of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and the first female secretary of labor.

Frances Perkins was a trailblazing woman whose ... As Secretary of Labor under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt from 1933 to 1945, Perkins was the first woman to serve in a presidential cabinet. A ...

Frances Perkins was a trailblazer whose legacy during the New Deal Era continues to improve the lives of people today. Perkins spent her life fighting for working people and served as a driving force ...