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As Secretary of Labor, Frances Perkins worked with numerous influential politicians including President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Woman of the Month: Savior of the Huddled Masses

Athena Lewin, Staff Writer Dec 1, 2020

Dedicating her life to social reform, and as the first female Cabinet member, Frances Perkins was a revolutionary. Born in Boston, raised in Worcester, and educated at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts, Perkins spent her formative years in New England. Perkins pursued physics and...