Our New York City Chapter led a New Deal tour of Central Park in May and presented a very impressive webinar on Social Security in June. They partnered with Roosevelt House at Hunter College on two other webinars, one in March on transforming the nation’s food system and another in October on New Deal-era Labor Secretary Frances Perkins and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. They also joined in the commemoration at the site of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company near Manhattan’s Washington Square, where a tragic fire in 1915 sparked Perkins’s lifelong dedication to aiding women and other workers.
