Kelly Therese · @FeministKelly
1205 followers · 205 posts · Server historians.social
Happy Birthday to Frances Perkins, born in Boston #OnThisDay 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.
#onthisday #otd #history #womenshistory #francesperkins
Vaniaji · @Vaniaji
313 followers · 4345 posts · Server toad.social@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. https://francesperkinscenter.org/life-new/ #francesperkins #newdeal #socialsecurity #employeesafety
#francesperkins #newdeal #SocialSecurity #employeesafety
Justiceđź’™:toad: LICSW · @justiceLICSW
694 followers · 1836 posts · Server toad.socialI wonder if this story can be told in #red #Republican states like #arkansas as #SarahHuckabeeSanders just made it easier for #ChildLabor and #RonDesantis just #bannedBooks on #History #FrancesPerkins #TriangleShirtWaistFire
#red #republican #arkansas #sarahhuckabeesanders #ChildLabor #rondesantis #bannedbooks #history #francesperkins #triangleshirtwaistfire #capitalism #humanrights #heathercoxrichardson
Jordan · @jealousofthesun
36 followers · 122 posts · Server hachyderm.ioI’m a self-styled pragmatic progressive who gets things done and political junkie — not for the horse race, but for action. Some of my heroes include…
#HillaryClinton
#TammyBaldwin
#PattyMurrary
#KirstenGillibrand
#KamalaHarris
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#LaurenUnderwood
#ShariceDavids
#PeteButtigieg
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#GeraldineFerraro
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#RBG
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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 #novel, would make home visits to the tenements, climbing over the rooftops even, to help deliver milk or supplies to the impoverished tenants.
#FrancesPerkins#socialwork #history #histfic #historicalfiction #womensfiction #womenshistory #newyork
#novel #francesperkins #history #histfic #historicalfiction #womensfiction #womenshistory #newyork
Stephanie Dray · @stephaniedray
60 followers · 70 posts · Server mastodonbooks.net@angelsomething as someone writing about #FrancesPerkins, I can attest this is true!
Stephanie Dray · @stephaniedray
7 followers · 26 posts · Server mastodonbooks.netWhere to begin, and where to end, are always the trickiest decisions I have to make as an author of biographical #historicalfiction and I almost always get it wrong the first time. Hence my current dilemma with #FrancesPerkins.
#historicalfiction #francesperkins #amediting #histfic #writerslife #authorsofmastodon