Girl Power: How Clara Lemlich Changed the World

Sun Nov 24, 2019
11:00am to 12:30pm ET
Age: 5 and up and their adult companions
Price: $14/adults; $10 children
Location:
Museum at Eldridge Street
212-219-0302
12 Eldridge Street, New York, NY, 10002
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The Museum at Eldridge Street hosts a special family program to learn more about what girls’ lives were like in the early 1900s, and how one brave activist made them so much better!

In November 1909, a young garment worker named Clara Lemlich stopped showing up at her job. Like many girls on the Lower East Side, Clara was a recent immigrant from Eastern Europe and she not only went to school, she also worked 11-hour days making dresses.

Angered by harsh working conditions, Clara’s fiery speech to a crowd of thousands at a union meeting sparking what newspapers called the “Revolt of the Girls” - 20,000 garment workers organized a walk-out at their factory jobs! Within months, that massive strike produced important changes to labor laws and working conditions. 

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