I am a founding university of the remember the Triangle Fire Coalition and a coauthor with my colleague andi sosin of the new york city triangle factory fire. I will briefly introduce my colleagues on the panel and they will have more time to tell you about themselves shortly. All of us are members of the remember the Triangle Fire Coalition, which you will hear more about as we discuss. And we are all committed to keeping the memory of the victims alive and visible. We began our Work Together as part of a team organizing a citywide commemoration for the centennial of the tragedy in 2011. This rapidly spread from a citywide commemoration in new york to a national and International Commemoration around the world. Were educators, activists, and historians. Briefly, dr. Mary anne trasciatti is a professor of rhetoric at Hofstra University as well as president of the remember the Triangle Fire Coalition, which we are finding is no small task. Rose imperato is an activist and Founding Membe
I am a founding university of the remember the Triangle Fire Coalition and a coauthor with my colleague andi sosin of the new york city triangle factory fire. I will briefly introduce my colleagues on the panel and they will have more time to tell you about themselves shortly. All of us are members of the remember the Triangle Fire Coalition, which you will hear more about as we discuss. And we are all committed to keeping the memory of the victims alive and visible. We began our Work Together as part of a team organizing a citywide commemoration for the centennial of the tragedy in 2011. This rapidly spread from a citywide commemoration in new york to a national and International Commemoration around the world. Were educators, activists, and historians. Briefly, dr. Mary anne trasciatti is a professor of rhetoric at Hofstra University as well as president of the remember the Triangle Fire Coalition, which we are finding is no small task. Rose imperato is an activist and Founding Membe
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Mar 31, 2021 8:50 PM EDT
On the corner of Washington Place and Greene Street, in New York City’s Greenwich Village, is a bronze plaque affixed to the Neo-Renaissance façade of the Brown Building now part of New York University. The building, it says, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and as a National Historical Landmark. Only 110 years ago, this now-vertical classroom and office building was once the site of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. Shirtwaists, the fashion a la mode, were cotton blouses, requiring no corset or hoops. The demand for the Triangle shirtwaists among working women in New York and beyond was enormous. In the factory, the foremen did everything they could to keep the women sewing to prevent “the interruption of work.”