Primary Sources: Social Reform & Activism: Social Security

National Archives Identifier: 514504
Local Identifier: 44-PA-997
Creator(s): Office for Emergency Management. Office of War Information. Domestic Operations Branch. Bureau of Special Services. (03/09/1943 - 09/15/1945) (Most Recent)
From: Series : World War II Posters, compiled 1942 - 1945
Record Group 44: Records of the Office of Government Reports, 1932 - 1947

Various historical reports and studies related to the Social Security Program

Radio Broadcast: December 19, 1935
"In this broadcast from December 1935, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins is defending and explaining the recently passed Social Security Act, while journalist George E. Sokolsky is attacking the new legislation."

BY Hon. Frances Perkins
National Radio Address delivered February 25, 1935
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Barely a month after President Roosevelt presented the Report of the Committee on Economic Security to the Congress, along with the Administration's draft Economic Security Bill, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins went on a national radio broadcast to explain the Administration's proposals to the American people. This was one of the earliest popular explanations of what would become the Social Security program."

A collection of interviews of people involved in the history of the SSA.

Access various historical documents from the Social Security Administration.

National Archives Identifier: 195880
Creator(s): National Archives and Records Administration. Office of Presidential Libraries. Franklin D. Roosevelt Library. (04/01/1985 - ) (Most Recent)
From: Series : Photographs from the Depression and World War II, compiled 1870 - 2004
Collection FDR-Photos: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Photographs, 1870 - 2004

Speech by Frances Perkins
Delivered at Social Security Administration Headquarters--Baltimore, Maryland
October 23, 1962.
Audio clips and transcript.

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