TY  - BOOK
AU  - Crowder,Melanie
TI  - Audacity
SN  - 9780147512499
U1  - 813.6 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York
PB  - Speak
KW  - Lemlich, Clara,
KW  - Women in the labor movement
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - New York
KW  - Juvenile fiction
KW  - Immigrants
KW  - Jews
KW  - United States
KW  - New York (N.Y.)
KW  - History
KW  - 1898-1951
KW  - Novels in verse
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - Young adult fiction
KW  - lcsh
N1  - First published in the United States of America by: Philomel Books, 2015
N2  - Inspired by the real-life story of Clara Lemlich, a spirited young woman who emigrated from Russia to New York at the turn of the twentieth century and fought tenaciously for equal rights. Bucking the norms of both her traditional Jewish family and societal conventions, Clara refuses to accept substandard working conditions in the factories on Manhattan's Lower East Side. For years, Clara devotes herself to the labor fight, speaking up for those who suffer in silence. In time, Clara convinces the women in the factories to strike, organize, and unionize, culminating in the famous Uprising of the 20,000
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