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Primary
Curated OER

History Matters: Camella Teoli Testifies About the 1912 Lawrence Textile Strike

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the gripping testimony of an immigrant girl who testified before a U.S. Congressional committee detailing the conditons in the textile mill in which she worked. Because of these unsafe working conditions, the textile workers...
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Lesson Plan
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Houghton Mifflin Company: Teacher's Guide for Bread and Roses, Too

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Katherine Paterson writes historical fiction for middle school aged learners. This book on the Bread and Roses strike includes good factual information about the strike woven into a personal story. This teacher's guide is a handy...
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Website
Other

Mass Moments: January 12, 1912: Bread and Roses Strike Begins

For Students 9th - 10th
The Bread and Roses Strike was given a very slight chance of accomplishing anything for women who worked in poor conditions in the textile mills in Lawrence, Massachusetts. See how wrong the mill owners and even the leaders of the...
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Article
Hartford Web Publishing

World History Archives: Bread & Roses: The Strike Led and Won by Women

For Students 9th - 10th
An article from Workers World describes the Bread and Roses Strike and explains why it ended up to be so effective. One interesting aspect is that there were immigrants working in the Lawrence textile mills speaking 25 different...
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Website
University of Maryland

Samuel Gompers Papers: Industrial Workers of the World

For Students 9th - 10th
From the papers of Samuel Gompers, this is a description of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and its aims in the early 20th century.