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My Works FRANCES PERKINS, FIRST WOMAN CABINET MEMBER When news of Perkins death reached Washington, Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz paid his predecessor a most fitting tribute: 'Every man and woman in America who works at a living wage, under safe conditions, for reasonable hours, or who is protected by unemployment insurance or Social Security is Frances Perkins' debtor.' In a speech to the nation in August 1938, the third anniversary of the Social Security Act, President Roosevelt reflected on the program's beginnings. 'This third anniversary would not be complete if I did not express the gratitude of the nation to those who helped me in making social security legislation possible...First of all, to the first woman who has ever sat in the cabinet of the United States, Miss Perkins..." Recently Published--Frances Perkins, First Woman Cabinet Member
Perkins began working as a social reformer, challenging manufacturers and politicians and championing workers' rights. At the start of the Great Depression, U. S. President F. D. Roosevelt asked her to join his cabinet as secretary of labor. Together they developed progressive plans to revive America's economy which included unemployment insurance, workmen's compensation and social security. Both Margaret Bourke-White and Frances Perkins are valuable portraits of people and events that were prominent in the 20s, 30s, 40s, and 50s in our country's history. Margaret Bourke-White, A Photographer's Life
The middle part of the 20th century was a rich time in U. S. history, and Margaret Bourke-White photographed the major events of the day. She showed Americans the beauty of industry and its machinery in the 1920s, documented poverty and suffering during the Great Depression in the 1930s, and brought home the war in the 1940s. The biography contains 169 reprints of Margaret Bourke-White's famous photos, including those of the photographer herself, more than any other biography. The book won a Voice of Youth Advocates Young Adults Library Services Association Placement on the Honor List for Outstanding Nonfiction.  Margaret Bourke-White Photographs Manhattan from the tower of the Chrysler Building in 1930 |
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