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Interview with Author Kirstin Downey

Season 23 Episode 7

An interview with author Kirstin Downey on labor rights activist Frances Perkins.

Author Kirstin Downey on the labor rights activist Frances Perkins, who would go on to become the secretary of labor and the first woman in a U.S. Cabinet.

AIR DATE 2/27/11

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