Reading this at your desk right now, I'm sure it's hard for you to imagine working at a sweatshop. But at the turn of the 20th century, that was reality for Clara Lemlich, who, within two weeks of her ...

Clara Lemlich, a 23-year-old Ukrainian immigrant, rose to a position of power in the women's labor movement, becoming the voice that incited the famous Uprising of the Twenty Thousand in 1909. Born in ...

Melanie Crowder was inspired to turn her research about women’s suffrage into a historical young-adult novel when she learned about Clara Lemlich, who’s best known for standing up at a mass factory ...

TEANECK — Resident and civil rights activist Theodora Smiley Lacey has received the Clara Lemlich Award from The Museum of the City of New York. The award celebrates the lives of women with decades of ...

July 12, 2019, marks the 37th anniversary of Clara Lemlich’s death. While Lemlich may not be a household name, her and her team of “farbrente Yidishe meydlekh,” or “fiery Jewish girls,” had a profound ...