Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Media

Period of Performance

10/1/1985 - 2/28/1987

Funding Totals

$208,718.00 (approved)
$208,718.00 (awarded)


BE YE STEDFAST (A Film Documentary about the Life & Work of Frances Perkins, First Woman Member of the Cabinet, 1933-45)

FAIN: GN-22552-85

Frances Perkins Film Project, Inc. (New York, NY 10023)
Robert A. Potts (Project Director: October 1985 to June 1987)

Funding details:
Original grant (1985) $192,817.00
Supplement (1987) $15,901.00

To support the production of a 60-minute documentary film on the life and work of Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor (1933-1945) and the first female member of the president's cabinet.