“The New Deal was not a plan, with a beginning, a middle and an end. It was a series of improvisations.”

About Frances Perkins

Public Servant • American

Frances Perkins was an American workers-rights advocate who served as the U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, the longest-serving in that position. As the first woman appointed to the U.S. Cabinet, she was a key...