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Author Colman, Penny.

Title A woman unafraid : the achievements of Frances Perkins / Penny Colman.

Publication Info. New York : Atheneum ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International, 1993.

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Children's & Young Adult Collection  CH/YA Bio Colman Wom 1993    Available  ---  Gift of Phyllis Fantauzzo.
Edition 1st ed.
Description x, 129 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
age Children
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-123) and index.
Filmography: page 124.
Summary A biography of Franklin D. Roosevelt's secretary of labor, who became the first woman cabinet member and a pioneer in labor reform, establishing unemployment insurance, minimum wages, maximum hours, safety regulations, and social security.
Provenance Gift of Phyllis Fantauzzo.
Subject Perkins, Frances, 1880-1965 -- Juvenile literature.
Perkins, Frances, 1880-1965.
Cabinet officers -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Cabinet officers.
United States.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Women -- Political activity -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Women -- Political activity.
Labor policy -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Labor policy.
History.
Genre/Form History.
Juvenile works.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Genre/Form Biographies.
ISBN 0689318537
9780689318535