...as Worcester-born and -raised Frances Perkins is scheduled to have a national monument, a still-unusual honor for a woman!
President Joe Biden will sign a proclamation Monday establishing a national monument honoring the late FDR-era Labor Secretary Frances Perkins, the first woman appointed to serve in a presidential Cabinet and a driving force behind the New Deal, according to the White House.
Biden is expected to visit the Labor Department on Monday to formally make the announcement and sign the proclamation that will establish the monument in Newcastle, Maine, the White House said.
Perkins is of course also a Worcester Public Schools graduate, as she graduated from Classicial High School before attending Mount Holyoke College.
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