Clara Lemlich, a 23-year-old Ukrainian immigrant, rose to a position of power in the women's labor movement, becoming the voice that incited the famous Uprising of the Twenty Thousand in 1909. Born in ...

TEANECK — Resident and civil rights activist Theodora Smiley Lacey has received the Clara Lemlich Award from The Museum of the City of New York. The award celebrates the lives of women with decades of ...

A slight young woman with lively dark eyes pushed her way to the front of a crowd of garment workers at a union meeting in New York City in 1909 and demanded to be heard. “I am tired of listening to ...

When immigrant Clara Lemlich arrived in New York City, she was “dirt poor, just five feet tall, and hardly [spoke] a word of English,” but she wasn’t short on tenacity and determination. After ...

Tsvey-vekhntlekher briv fun froyen shtot komitet, dem 14tn Yuni, 1941 Translated Summary: Begins, "The outstanding district demonstrations that were carried out by our clubs on Thursday, the 12th of ...

Audacity by Melanie Crowder; Philomel, 388 page, $17.99. Ages 12 and up. This stirring novel, told in free verse, tells the story of labor activist Clara Lemlich, a Russian Jewish immigrant who defied ...