# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/clara-lemlich
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:54:41.573Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/clara-lemlich"
name: "Clara Lemlich"
slug: "clara-lemlich"
description: "Clara Lemlich Shavelson was a leader of the Uprising of 20,000, the massive strike of shirtwaist workers in New York's garment industry in 1909, where she spoke in Yiddish and called for action. Later blacklisted from the industry for her labor union work, she became a member of the Communist Party USA and a consumer activist. In her last years as a nursing home resident she helped to organize the staff."
tagline: "Union organizer, suffragist, activist (1886-1982)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Clara_Lemlich_1910.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1886-03-28"
deathDate: "1982-07-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.43
  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.70918266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "كلارا ليمليش"
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    title: "Clara Lemlich"
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    title: "Clara Lemlich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Lemlich"
    title: "Clara Lemlich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Lemlich"
    title: "Clara Lemlich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Lemlich"
    title: "Clara Lemlich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Lemlich"
    title: "Clara Lemlich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Lemlich"
    title: "Clara Lemlich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "קלרה למליך"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "클라라 렘리히"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Lemlich"
    title: "Clara Lemlich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Лемлих, Клара"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Clara Lemlich"
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  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Lemlich_Shavelson"
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  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0_%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%BB%D1%96%D1%85"
    title: "Клара Лемліх"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump