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Clara Lemlich

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Union organizer, suffragist, activist (1886-1982)

United StatesLived 1886 to 1982 · aged 96
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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.

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Sketch of Lemlich from a 1909 article in The Kansas City Star, captioned with "Miss Clara Lemlich, who is at the head of thirty thousand girl strikers in New York."Sketch of Lemlich from a 1909 article in The Kansas City Star, captioned with "Miss Clara Lemlich, who is at the head of thirty thousand girl strikers in New York."

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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.

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United States
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deceased
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Lived 1886 to 1982 · aged 96
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