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Sep 2020
44m 24s

Frances Perkins: Influential and Unknown

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Frances Perkins was an incredibly influential American yet is virtually unknown. What did she do? A lot! For instance, Social Security was her brainchild. And that's just the tip of the old iceberg. 
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