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Clara Lemlich: Activist, Socialist, Bad Ass - with Alycia from Civics and Coffee Podcast


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"Well behaved women seldom make history" Laurel Thatcher 

The theme above can be heard throughout the conversation in this episode. I got the chance to sit down with one of my favorite history podcast hosts, Alycia from Civis and Coffee, and discuss a woman who immigrated to the US and took up the fight for her fellow immigrant women in the textile industry. Clara was feisty, strong and consistent throughout her life. Come join us and hear her story and more! Cheers.

Sources: 

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/biography-clara-lemlich/

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/01/obituaries/overlooked-clara-lemlich-shavelson.html

https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/triangle-shirtwaist-fire

https://wams.nyhistory.org/modernizing-america/fighting-for-social-reform/clara-lemlich/

https://19thnews.org/2020/08/womens-suffrage-centennial-labor-rights/

http://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=hearth6417403_1340_004#page/65/mode/1up

Revealing Division:: The Philadelphia shirtwaist Strike, the Jewish Community, and Republican Machine Politics, 1909–1910 Revealing Division: on JSTOR

The Struggles of Women Industrial Workers to Improve Work Conditions in the Progressive Era https://www.jstor.org/stable/25163292

High Adventure in Garment Trades The NY Times Feb 8 1925

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