Clara Lemlich
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Clara Lemlich Shavelson was a leader of the Uprising of 20,000, the massive strike of shirtwaist workers in New York's garment industry in 1909, where she spoke in Yiddish and called for action. Later
Lemlich c. 1910
Sketch of Lemlich from a 1909 article in The Kansas City Star, captioned with "Miss Clara Lemlich, who is at the head of thirty thousand girl strikers in New York."
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire occurred in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, a borough of New York City, on Saturday, March 25, 1911. The fire was the deadliest industrial disaste
Clara Lemlich
…attention of the outside world at the mass meeting held at Cooper Union on November 22, 1909 to rally support for the striking shirtwaist workers at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company and Leiserson Company. For two hours the leading figures of the American labor movement and socialist leaders of the Lower East Side spoke in general…
Image of Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire on March 25 1911
A horse-drawn fire engine on the way to the burning factory
A photograph of the building's south side, which ran the day after the disaster in the March 26, 1911, issue of The New York Times. Windows marked by an X are those from which 50 women jumped.
62 people jumped or fell from windows.