Audio files from Frances Perkins' 1962 address, The Roots of Social Security. Perkins delivered this address on October 23, 1962, at the General Staff Meeting of the Social Security Administration in Baltimore. Maryland.
Christopher N. Brieseth wrote this essay in 1966, the year following the death of Frances Perkins. He was one of the members of Cornell’s Telluride House who invited Perkins to live with them for what would be the last five years of her life.
Pictured here is the New York Times Studio press portrait first used in the New York Times article of April 11, 1931 describing the celebration by 700 people in the Hotel Roosevelt of White's thirtieth anniversary as Biblical Seminary's President and…