Smithsonian Magazine

Uncovering the History of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

On March 25, 1911, 146 workers perished when a fire broke out in a garment factory in New York City. For 90 years, it stood as New York's deadliest workplace disaster. Bettmann/CORBIS On March 25, ...
In These Times

Remembering the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and Uprising of the 20,000

Movements today are a part of a legacy of extraordinary actions taken by ordinary people. Tapping into our own labor history provides us with a blueprint for action in today’s turbulent world. Factory ...
Detroit Lakes Tribune

Detroit Lakes High School One-Act play to tell the tale of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

Students will retell the 1911 fire through eyewitness accounts and courtroom testimony, performing locally Tuesday, Jan. 20, ...
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The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (March 25, 1911)

On a cold windy Saturday in March of 1911, a fire broke out at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City. In less than a half an hour, it became one of the deadliest industrial disasters in ...
WGHP

Memorial honors 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire deaths that galvanized US labor movement

NEW YORK (AP) — If people really looked for history at the New York City building where the Triangle Shirtwaist factory once existed, they could find it. There are plaques pointing out that it was the ...
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The Triangle Fire : a brief history with documents / [edited by] Jo Ann E. Argersinger, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Part One. Introduction: The fire that changed America. The garment industry and its workers ; Triangle and the "uprising of twenty thousand" ; The Triangle tragedy : grief and outrage ; "The fire that ...