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Scale of atrocity * caliber of organizing
Why do some tragedies generate change and others don’t? 109 years ago today the Triangle Shirtwaist fire killed 146 people - mostly Jewish & Italian immigrant women. The fire was key to winning labor & safety laws. The political power women…
Tags: Jews, labor, New York City, Rose Schneiderman, WTUL
Working women
Work. Throughout the 19th century, even suffragists saw paid work as something poor women _had_ to do, not something women would _want_ to do. Most of the movement’s full-time activists (both white and Black) had family money or a husband who…
Tags: 1903, Harriot Stanton Blatch, labor, WTUL
Funding, and the class politics of activism
Activism needs resources. Wealthier women provided funding that working class suffragists needed: to print leaflets & posters, rent meeting halls, and most of all to pay salaries so activists could quit their factory jobs & organize…
Tags: funding, labor, Rose Schneiderman, WTUL
5th grade reports
Kvelling: my son's 5th grade presentation on garment workers, WTUL, #TriangleFire. I gave him @AnneliseOrleck1 & Barbara Wertheimer, but hadn't seen his final paper. He was awesome. Crying: his classmate presented on the Brooklyn Bridge without…
Tags: WTUL
Mrs. Pankhurst at Carnegie Hall
While Alice Paul was in London’s Holloway Prison with a feeding tube forced down her nose, Emmeline Pankhurst traveled to the US to raise funds and promote the cause. American women were fascinated to see the British radical up close. 🧵 On…
Tags: 1909, Barnard, Direct Action, Emmeline Pankhurst, NAWSA, Prison, UK, Vassar, WTUL