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Oh Immigration Act of 1924, you're so racist!
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Oh Immigration Act of 1924, you're so racist!
Officials will unveil this fall the long-awaited Triangle Fire Memorial at the site of one of the deadliest blazes in New York City history, in Greenwich
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On March 25, 1911, a crowd of New Yorkers watched in horror as dozens of Triangle Shirtwaist Factory workers, mostly immigrant children and young women, jumped to their deaths as fire swept through the Greenwich Village garment factory. Many of the victims had attempted to escape through stairwells but were met with locked doors that had been fastened illegally to prevent theft and unauthorized breaks. In total, 146 workers died, making the Triangle Fire one of the deadliest industrial catastrophes in U.S. history. Among the crowd looking on that day was workers’ rights advocate Frances Perk...
At Hunter College, once an all-women’s school, former U.S. Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins is already a legend, and not only because she was the first woman ever to serve in a presidential cabinet and the longest-serving labor secretary in history (12 years).