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Clara Lemlich and the Uprising of the 20,000
April 30, 2019, 4:00 PM
Free
In 1909, Clara Lemlich, a young Jewish refugee from Russia to New York City, sparked the first great women’s strike in American history by speaking uninvited to several thousand teenaged foreign-born sweatshop workers to urge a revolt against intolerable conditions. Over the next three months, Lemlich faced beatings and arrests, but the “Uprising of 20,000” inspired a rare coalition of poor immigrants, middle-class reformers, and feminists. Why did this landmark strike occur? How did it change America?
Presented by Rob Weisbrot, Christian A. Johnson Distinguished Teaching Professor of History.
Co-sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program and the History Department.