In this performance, Janet Parnes will address Frances Perkin's life from her time in Washington forward

 Topics include:

Life with FDR (and Eleanor)

The list of demands she presented to FDR when he offered her the position of Sec of Labor (all having to do with justice for workers in the midst of the Depression)

The chaos she encountered when arriving in Washington

The attempt to impeach her

Strategies she used to work with men

The creation of the New Deal

Challenges working with the unions

Frances’s post political life teaching at Cornell

Terrible troubles with her husband and daughter