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Clara Lemlich

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Profession
Civil Rights Leader
Died
Jul 12, 1982
Zodiac
Aries
Born in
Ukraine
About
After leading the Uprising of 20,000 (also known as the 1909 New York Shirtwaist Strike), this labor unionist went on to campaign for women's suffrage and to join the Communist Party.
Family
Her four-decade marriage to Joe Shavelson produced children named Irving, Martha, and Rita. A decade after Shavelson's 1951 death, she married Abe Goldman; that marriage ended in 1967.

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