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date: '2024-12-16' | ||
modified_time: 2024-12-15 21:25:31-05:00 | ||
published_time: 2024-12-16 05:00:00-05:00 | ||
source_url: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/12/16/fact-sheet-president-biden-designates-frances-perkins-national-monument/ | ||
tags: statements-releases | ||
title: "FACT SHEET: President\_Biden Designates Frances Perkins National\_Monument" | ||
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*Action Uplifts Women’s History by Honoring the First Woman Cabinet | ||
Secretary, Longest-Serving Secretary of Labor, and a Key Architect of | ||
the New Deal* | ||
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Today President Biden will sign a proclamation establishing the Frances | ||
Perkins National Monument in Newcastle, Maine, to honor the historic | ||
contributions of America’s first woman Cabinet Secretary and the | ||
longest-serving Secretary of Labor. | ||
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Frances Perkins was the leading architect behind the New Deal and led | ||
many labor and economic reforms that continue to benefit Americans | ||
today. During her 12 years as Secretary of Labor under President | ||
Franklin D. Roosevelt, she envisioned and helped create Social Security; | ||
helped millions of Americans get back to work during the Great | ||
Depression; fought for the right of workers to organize and bargain | ||
collectively; and established the minimum wage, overtime pay, | ||
prohibitions on child labor, and unemployment insurance. | ||
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During a visit to the Department of Labor’s Frances Perkins Building, | ||
President Biden will showcase Frances Perkins’s foundational legacy, | ||
which civil rights and women’s rights leaders have built upon to further | ||
expand opportunities for all Americans. The President will also | ||
highlight how his Administration has continued to stand with labor and | ||
strengthen America’s workforce. President Biden is proud to be the most | ||
pro-union and pro-worker president in history, | ||
[including](https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/09/06/fact-sheet-days-after-labor-day-biden-harris-administration-issues-executive-order-to-promote-good-jobs-through-investing-in-america-agenda/) | ||
creating the Made in America office; requiring Project Labor Agreements | ||
on nearly all major federal construction projects of over $35 million; | ||
signing the Butch Lewis Act to save more than one million pensions; and | ||
becoming the first president in history to walk a picket line. | ||
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The designation of this new national monument advances President Biden’s | ||
March 2024 [Executive | ||
Order](https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2024/03/27/executive-order-on-recognizing-and-honoring-womens-history/) | ||
to strengthen the recognition of women’s history. In addition to | ||
establishing the Frances Perkins National Monument, today Secretary of | ||
the Interior Deb Haaland will announce five new National Historic | ||
Landmarks that will increase the representation of women’s history in | ||
historic sites across America and additional new actions to advance | ||
President Biden’s Executive Order. | ||
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**<u>Frances Perkins National Monument</u>** | ||
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At a time when few women were in leadership positions and just 13 years | ||
after the 19th Amendment granted women the right to vote, President | ||
Roosevelt asked Frances Perkins to become his Secretary of Labor. | ||
Perkins told President Roosevelt that if she accepted the position, she | ||
intended to execute an ambitious plan to protect American workers. Over | ||
her 12 years as Secretary of Labor, Perkins accomplished nearly | ||
everything on her list and laid the groundwork for the labor policy and | ||
social safety net that we continue to build on today. | ||
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The new national monument boundary encompasses the 57 acres of the | ||
Frances Perkins Homestead National Historic Landmark site in Newcastle, | ||
Maine. The Perkins Homestead played a pivotal role in Frances Perkins’ | ||
life and was the place Perkins felt most at home. She spent her | ||
childhood summers there, and returned frequently for respite throughout | ||
her ground-breaking professional career. | ||
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Owned by her family for over 270 years, the Homestead remains much as it | ||
looked during Perkins’ lifetime. The 2.3-acre core area of the Homestead | ||
has been donated to the National Park Service and is reserved as part of | ||
the new monument, including the Perkins’ family home known as the brick | ||
house, a barn and outbuilding, gardens, and part of the stone wall | ||
surrounding the property. The remaining Homestead landscape extends from | ||
the core area to the Damariscotta River to the east, and contains other | ||
buildings, structures, gardens, and the paths used by Perkins and her | ||
family throughout her life. These lands are currently owned by the | ||
Frances Perkins Center which has been managing and preserving them, and | ||
they will be reserved and protected as part of the national monument if | ||
they are ever donated to the Federal Government in the future. | ||
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**<u>Advancing Women’s History and Telling a More Complete American | ||
Story</u>** | ||
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The establishment of the Frances Perkins National Monument furthers the | ||
Administration’s commitment to recognizing women’s contributions to our | ||
country. TheBiden-Harris Administration has [invested more than $40 | ||
million](https://www.doi.gov/womens-history-month) to restore and | ||
support sites that recognize and elevate the stories of women who have | ||
shaped American history. Today, the Department of the Interior (DOI) is | ||
announcing additional new actions that advance the President’s Executive | ||
Order on Honoring and Recognizing Women’s History, including: | ||
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- Secretary Haaland is announcing five new National Historic | ||
Landmarks, DOI’s highest recognition of a property’s historical, | ||
architectural, or archeological significance. These include: | ||
- **The Charleston Cigar Factory** **in Charleston, South | ||
Carolina.** This new landmark, historically known as the | ||
American Cigar Company Building, will recognize the site where | ||
cigar factory workers – led by Black women – went on strike for | ||
better pay and working conditions, and against gender and racial | ||
discrimination on the job. | ||
- **The Furies Collective House in Washington, D.C.** This new | ||
landmark recognizes the former home of a group of young | ||
activists who created a social and political community credited | ||
with recognizing the existence and needs of lesbians in the | ||
women’s movement in the early 1970s, and who published a | ||
newspaper focused on questions of women’s identity, | ||
relationships, and roles in society. | ||
- **The Lucy Diggs Slowe and Mary Burrill House in Washington, | ||
D.C.** This new landmark includes the residence of Lucy Diggs | ||
Slowe, the first dean of women at Howard University, and her | ||
partner Mary Burrill. An advocate for educational parity between | ||
men and women students, Slowe helped modernize student affairs | ||
at Howard and other historically Black colleges and universities | ||
(HBCUs). | ||
- **Azurest South in Petersburg, Virginia**. This new landmark is | ||
designed in the International Style, an architectural style | ||
developed in the United States and Europe in the 1920s and 1930s | ||
that dominated mid-20th century architecture, by Amaza Lee | ||
Meredith, a pioneering Black woman architect. | ||
- **The Peter Hurd and Henriette Wyeth House and Studios in San | ||
Patricio, New Mexico.** This new landmark recognizes the home | ||
and workspace of 20<sup>th</sup> century Realist painter | ||
Henriette Wyeth. | ||
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- The National Park Service is announcing a $500,000 grant from the | ||
Historic Preservation Fund to support the renovation of the **Seneca | ||
Falls Knitting Mill**, a part of the Seneca Falls Village Historic | ||
District. The Fund’s support will enable the National Women’s Hall | ||
of Fame to expand its programming on women’s history and restore the | ||
mill, which was one of the few places in Seneca Falls, New York to | ||
employ women during its 150 years of operation. | ||
- As directed by President Biden, DOI is releasing **a** [**new | ||
report**](https://www.nps.gov/aboutus/upload/Executive-Order-14121-Recognizing-and-Honoring-Womens-History-Section-3a-Report.pdf) | ||
**on representation of women across sites of national importance, | ||
including National Historic Landmarks, national monuments, and | ||
national park sites.** The report assesses which existing federal | ||
sites are significant to women’s history and offers opportunities to | ||
improve the recognition of women’s contributions to our country | ||
across the National Park Service, including through the National | ||
Historic Landmark program. | ||
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**<u>Background on Antiquities Act Designations</u>** | ||
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President Theodore Roosevelt first used the Antiquities Act in 1906 to | ||
designate Devils Tower National Monument in Wyoming. Since then, 18 | ||
presidents of both parties have used this authority to protect natural | ||
and historic features in America, including the Grand Canyon, the Statue | ||
of Liberty, the Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument, the Pullman | ||
National Monument, and the César E. Chávez National Monument. | ||
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The Frances Perkins National Monument will be President Biden’s | ||
13<sup>th</sup> use of the Antiquities Act and his fourth new national | ||
monument commemorating a site that helps tell a more complete American | ||
story. Other designations under President Biden include the creation of | ||
the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument, the Springfield | ||
1908 Race Riot National Monument, and the Carlisle Federal Indian | ||
Boarding School National Monument. | ||
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