Dear Miss Perkins (eBook)

A Story of Frances Perkins's Efforts to Aid Refugees from Nazi Germany

Rebecca Brenner Graham (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
336 Seiten
Citadel Press (Verlag)
978-0-8065-4319-2 (ISBN)

Infos

This outstanding, inspiring new narrative of the first woman to serve in a president's cabinet, reveals the full never-before-told story of her role in saving Jewish refugees during the Nazi regime. She was the first woman to serve in a presidential cabinet, the longest-serving Labor Secretary, and an architect of the New Deal. Yet beyond these celebrated accomplishments there is another dimension to Frances Perkins's story. Without fanfare, and despite powerful opposition, Perkins helped save the lives of countless Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany. ';Immigration problems usually have to be decided in a few days. They involve human lives. There can be no delaying,' Perkins wrote in her memoir, The Roosevelt I Knew. In March 1933, at the height of the Great Depression, Perkins was appointed Secretary of Labor by FDR. As Hitler rose to power, thousands of German-Jewish refugees and their loved ones reached out to the INSthen part of the Department of Laborapplying for immigration to the United States, writing letters that began ';Dear Miss Perkins . . .' Perkins's early experiences working in Chicago's famed Hull House and as a firsthand witness to the horrific Triangle Shirtwaist fire shaped her determination to advocate for immigrants and refugees. As Secretary of Labor, she wrestled widespread antisemitism and isolationism, finding creative ways to work around quotas and restrictive immigration laws. Diligent, resilient, empathetic, yet steadfast, she persisted on behalf of the desperate when others refused to act. Based on extensive research, including thousands of letters housed in the National Archives, Dear Miss Perkins adds new dimension to an already extraordinary life story, revealing at last how one woman tried to steer the nation to a better, more righteous course.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.1.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: 1930s • 1940s • Adolph Hitler • Allied Powers • Amercan history • America • American immigration • American Politics • asylum seekers • Axis powers • cabinet • charge bonds • Chinese Exclusion Act • Dear Miss Perkins • department of labor • Edith Rogers • Fascism • fascists • FDR • first female • first female cabinet member • Formidable by Elisabeth Griffith • Frances Perkins • Franklin Roosevelt • German Refugees • Germany • Great Depression • Harry Bridges • History • Holocaust • Immigrants • Immigration • Immigration Act • Immigration Law • Immigration Naturalization Services • immigration quotas • Immigration Reform • INS • isolationism • Jewish History • Jewish refugees • labor legislation • labor secretary • minimum wage • Naturalization • Natural Origins Act • Nazi Germany • Nazis • Nazism • New Deal • Not A Nation of Immigrants by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz • progressive politics • progressivism • Rebecca Brenner Graham • Refugees • Rescue Board by Rebecca Erbelding • Roosevelt • Second World War • Secretary of Labor • Senator Robert Wagner • Social Security • The Confidante by Christopher C. Gorham • The New Deal • The Woman Behind the New Deal by Kirsten Downey • Unemployment Insurance • U.S. Immigration • U.S. immigration law • Wagner-Rogers Bill • Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell • women in histo • women in politics • Women's history • Women’s history • women’s politics • World History • World War II • World War II History • ww2 • ww2 history • WWII • wwii history • You Never Forget Your First by Alexis Coe
• ISBN-10: 0-8065-4319-1 / 0806543191
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8065-4319-2 / 9780806543192