Kelly Therese · @FeministKelly
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Happy Birthday to Frances Perkins, born in Boston in 1880. Perkins, the first woman to serve in a presidential cabinet, was the longest-serving Secretary of Labor in US history, in office from 1933 to 1945. Perkins chaired the President's Committee on Economic Security, which led to the Social Security Act of 1935.

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Vaniaji · @Vaniaji
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@wdlindsy We can thank her for the New Deal/Social Security. She lived her compassion. Here is a website dedicated to Francis Perkins…an incredible human who happened to be a woman. francesperkinscenter.org/life-

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Jordan · @jealousofthesun
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Stephanie Dray · @stephaniedray
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Social Work has never been for the feint of heart, but it was decidedly dicey business in the early 20th century, when workers like Frances Perkins, the heroine of my forthcoming , would make home visits to the tenements, climbing over the rooftops even, to help deliver milk or supplies to the impoverished tenants.

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Stephanie Dray · @stephaniedray
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@angelsomething as someone writing about , I can attest this is true!

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Stephanie Dray · @stephaniedray
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Where to begin, and where to end, are always the trickiest decisions I have to make as an author of biographical and I almost always get it wrong the first time. Hence my current dilemma with .

#historicalfiction #francesperkins #amediting #histfic #writerslife #authorsofmastodon

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