Frances Perkins: Trailblazing Champion of Working Class America

by Ruth Monsell

A middle-grade biography of Frances Perkins, a loyal supporter of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and chief architect of his famous New Deal. Perkins, subject of a new PBS documentary, was the first woman to serve as a Presidential cabinet member and was largely responsible for the U.S. adoption of social security, unemployment insurance, federal laws regulating child labor, and the federal minimum wage. The foundation for much of her later efforts...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1944762914
• ISBN13: 9781944762919
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: Islandport Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Age Range: 10 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 9