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.
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.