March 21, 2011

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire

Сэнгер была как-то замешана и в этом пожаре, точнее, наверно в расследовании и раздаче слонов
25 марта -- 100 лет

New York’s landmark industrial disaster that killed 146 of the factory's 500 employees, most of them young immigrant women and girls of Italian and European Jewish descent. The tragedy sparked a nationwide debate about workers rights, representation and safety.
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The walk, researched and written by former New York Times editor Betsy Wade and historian James Boylan, celebrates such leaders as Frances Perkins, who commissioned hearings as chief investigator on fire hazards after witnessing the Triangle Fire, as well as Margaret Sanger, Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth, and Brenda Berkman, one of the female firefighter first responders on 9/11.

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