Dear America: The Triangle Factory Fire
 
 


Dear America: Hear My Sorrow, The Diary of Angela Denoto, A Shirtwaist Worker, New York City 1909

Hear My Sorrow tells the story of the 1909 strike of young shirtwaist workers, the "Uprising of the Twenty Thousand", as well as the Triangle Factory Fire, from the point of view of a young Italian immigrant.  Here are some further links and resources:

The Triangle Factory Fire
The Kheel Center at Cornell University has the best Internet website on the disaster on March 25, 1911.

Kheel Center Bibliography for Young Readers

NPR Triangle Factory Story

Triangle Factory Fire Archival Photos

Garment Workers: The Fight for Labor Rights

Lyrics to Labor Song: Uprising of the Twenty Thousand

Uprising of the Twenty Thousand: Harvard University site

ILGWU and Garment Workers Strike


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ALA Notable Book

Winner of the IRA Award

Nominated for the Texas Bluebonnet Award 2005-06

Get Ready for Darwin's


Billy and the Rebel 2005


Nominated for State Awards:

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