diff --git a/rss.xml b/rss.xml index 0d979433..b43464c5 100644 --- a/rss.xml +++ b/rss.xml @@ -8,11 +8,28 @@ The White House Briefing Room - Sun, 15 Dec 2024 12:00:00 -0500 + Mon, 16 Dec 2024 05:00:00 -0500 https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/ + + + FACT SHEET: President Biden Designates Frances Perkins National Monument + + + https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/12/16/fact-sheet-president-biden-designates-frances-perkins-national-monument/ + + + Mon, 16 Dec 2024 05:00:00 -0500 + + + https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/12/16/fact-sheet-president-biden-designates-frances-perkins-national-monument/ + + + statements-releases + + FACT SHEET: Progress by Biden-⁠Harris Good Jobs Task Force @@ -506,22 +523,5 @@ presidential-actions </category> </item> - <item> - <title> - Statement from Vice President Kamala Harris on the Passing of Nikki Giovanni - - - https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/12/11/statement-from-vice-president-kamala-harris-on-the-passing-of-nikki-giovanni/ - - - Wed, 11 Dec 2024 13:52:25 -0500 - - - https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/12/11/statement-from-vice-president-kamala-harris-on-the-passing-of-nikki-giovanni/ - - - statements-releases - - diff --git a/statements-releases/2024-12/2024-12-16-fact-sheet-president-biden-designates-frances-perkins-national-monument.md b/statements-releases/2024-12/2024-12-16-fact-sheet-president-biden-designates-frances-perkins-national-monument.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..392c423b --- /dev/null +++ b/statements-releases/2024-12/2024-12-16-fact-sheet-president-biden-designates-frances-perkins-national-monument.md @@ -0,0 +1,163 @@ +--- +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" +--- + +*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* + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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. + +**Frances Perkins National Monument** + +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. + +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.   + +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. + +**Advancing Women’s History and Telling a More Complete American +Story** + +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: + +- 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 20th century Realist painter + Henriette Wyeth.     + + + +- 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. + +**Background on Antiquities Act Designations** + +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. + +The Frances Perkins National Monument will be President Biden’s +13th 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. + +\###