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1 day ago · SUTTON — On October 3, the Sutton Senior Center will host Part 2 of the performance “Meet The Unsung Heroine Behind the New Deal.” This… Login to continue reading Login Sign up for complimentary access Sign Up Now Close
2 days ago · Meet Frances Perkins: the first female member of a presidential cabinet, and the chief architect behind many New Deal programs that live on 85 years later.
3 days ago · 100 years later: When the Ku Klux Klan came to Maine, locals turned them away. In 1924, the group started marching in Saco. But when they tried to cross into Biddeford, they were turned away by Franco and Irish immigrants. SACO, Maine — Traffic zooms steadily between Saco and Biddeford, crossing the Saco River on the Main Street bridge and ...
3 days ago · The National Archives’ Special Access and FOIA Program recently made available online the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) case file on Emma Tenayuca (1916-1999) (NAID 16843150 and NAID 16843151). Tenayuca was a labor leader known for her role organizing workers in the pecan shelling industry in San Antonio, Texas in the 1930’s.
3 days ago · Francis Perkins looks on as Roosevelt signs the National Labor Relations Act. The economic reforms were mainly intended to rescue the capitalist system by providing a more rational framework in which it could operate. The banking system was made less vulnerable.
5 days ago · Typed letter to Frances Perkins from Governor Franklin Roosevelt, with autograph note by Perkins
3 days ago · In this first biography of "the most dangerous woman in America," Elliott J. Gorn proves why, in the words of Eugene V. Debs, Mother Jones "has won her way into the hearts of the nation's toilers, and... will be lovingly remembered by their children and their children's children forever." Current Price : Featured. $13.79. Lowest. $8.90.
