Arturo Giovannitti
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Arturo M. Giovannitti was an Italian-American union leader, socialist political activist, and poet. He is best remembered as one of the principal organizers of the 1912 Lawrence textile strike and as
Giovannitti, around his September 1912 trial.
Giovannitti (far left) alongside Luigi Antonini, Salvatore Ninfo, and other anti-fascist Italian labor leaders, 1923
1912 Lawrence textile strike
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The Lawrence Textile Strike, also known as the Bread and Roses Strike, was a strike of immigrant workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, in 1912 led by the Industrial Workers of the World. Prompted by a t
Arturo Giovannitti
…1959) was an Italian-American union leader, socialist political activist, and poet. He is best remembered as one of the principal organizers of the 1912 Lawrence textile strike and as a defendant in a celebrated trial caused by that event. Arturo Giovannitti was born in 1884 in Ripabottoni, in what is now the Province of…
Massachusetts militiamen with fixed bayonets surround a group of strikers
Postcard of American Woolen Co., Washington Mills, Lawrence, Mass.
The Massachusetts National Guard mounted on horses during the strike.
Political cartoon The Lawrence Way by Art Young with the caption: "On February 24 and 25, soldiers and policemen forcibly prevented parents from sending their children away from Lawrence to cities which offered food and shelter."