President Joe Biden will sign a proclamation Monday establishing a national monument in honor of former Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins — a registered socialist and key architect of the New Deal.
A March 2024 executive order claimed “women’s history is vastly underrepresented in our National Park System” and mandated action to “strengthen the Federal Government’s recognition of women’s history and the achievements of women and girls from all backgrounds.” As part of this effort, the Biden-Harris administration will now establish a monument to Perkins at the site of her childhood summer home in Maine that will honor her 12 years as former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s secretary of Labor, during which she helped establish a slew of welfare programs, including Social Security and unemployment insurance, according to a White House press release. (RELATED: Biden-Harris Admin Spends Hundreds Of Thousands Looking For LGBT Landmarks As National Parks Fall Into Disrepair)
Raised by an affluent, Republican family in New England, Perkins joined the Socialist Party while living in Philadelphia between 1907 and 1909, according to the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). She later left the party to become a Democrat at the urging of former Democratic New York Gov. Alfred Smith, who appointed her to the state’s Industrial Commission in 1918.
“It was no secret she was a democratic socialist,” Chris Cash, an educational outreach professional at the Frances Perkins Center, told the DSA. “It was her camp.”
Perkins was later promoted to be the New York’s Industrial Commissioner in 1928, and retained the role after FDR was elected governor of New York. When FDR became president in 1933, he selected Perkins to serve as U.S. Secretary of Labor, making her the first ever female cabinet member. […]
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