Clara Lemlich Papers circa 1909-1992
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Lemlich, Clara, 1886-1982
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Clara Lemlich Shavelson (March 28, 1886 – July 25, 1982) was a leader of the Uprising of 20,000, the massive strike of shirtwaist workers in New York's garment industry in 1909. Later blacklisted from the industry for her labor union work, she became a member of the Communist Party USA and a consumer activist in Brooklyn, New York. Born in the Ukraine to a Jewish family, she migrated to the U.S. in 2003. She became a garment worker, was elected to the executive board of Local 25 of the ILGWU (In...
Emma Lazarus Federation of Jewish Women's Clubs
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Began with the United Council of Working Class Housewives which later became the Progressive Women's Council, the latter organization merged with the Jewish People's Fraternal Order-IWO to become its women's division; in 1951 at the third national convention of the Emma Lazarus Division of the Jewish People's Fraternal Order-IWO (ELD-JPFO) members voted to split away from the parent organization (JPFO) they had outgrown; they named the new organization the Emma Lazarus Federation of Jewish Women...
Schappes, Morris U. (Morris Urman), 1907-
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Born Moishe Shapshilevich in 1907 in Kamenetz-Podolsk, Ukraine, Schappes was raised in Brazil and moved with his parents to New York in 1914. Earning his Bachelor of Arts at City College and his Master of Arts at Columbia University, he joined the faculty of City College as an English lecturer in 1928. As a scholar, Schappes first achieved prominence for his work on the poetry and letters of Emma Lazarus, published in a series of books and monographs between 1944 and 1987. His broader historical...
