Mar 22 -Steadfast: Frances Perkins, Champion of Workers’ Rights – A Webinar with Jennifer Merz
Steadfast: Frances Perkins, Champion of Workers’ Rights – A Webinar with Jennifer Merz
Monday, March 22
7:30 – 9:00 pm Eastern
Local author and illustrator, Jennifer Merz, presents her latest picture book, Steadfast: Frances Perkins, Champion of Workers’ Rights. Perkins was eyewitness to the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in 1911 and became a champion for workplace health and safety laws affecting factory workers in the early 20th century. Eventually Perkins was appointed U.S. Secretary of Labor by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933. Jennifer Merz discusses Perkins’ enduring legacy as inspiration for this new historical nonfiction story for children and presents her unique illustrative process and style.
Her book has received an Honorable Mention in the 2020 American Book Fest Award for hardcover nonfiction picture book category. Steadfast has also earned a spot on the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators’ Reading List for Women’s History Month.
This program is supported by the New Jersey Council for the Humanities through the “NJ Women Vote: The 19th Amendment at 100.”
March is Women’s History Month. This was the second presentation commemorating the centennial achievement of woman’s suffrage, woman’s rights, and the passage of the 19th Amendment.
This book is available in our bookstore.