This week I read Uprising by Margaret Peterson Haddix. This is one of the best pieces of historical fiction that I've ever read. The book follows three main characters. Bella is a recent Italian Immigrant who comes to New York in hopes of earning money to keep her family in Italy from starvation. Yetta is less recent Russian Jew who, after moving to New York, is caught up in the garment workers' union and the workers' rights movement. And Jane who, although was born a wealthy American, abandons her father and his money believing it to be blood money, earned at the expensive of the immigrant workers. These three fictional characters are caught up in two main events of history - the Uprising of the 20,000 and the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.
To learn more about the Uprising of the 20,000, click HERE.
Two of the 20,000 Garment Workers striking for workers' rights.
More shirtwaist workers participating in the strike.
Remains of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory after the infamous fire.
Remains of those who perished in the fire.
