italian american girls

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italian american girls

Lucy fights the flames

a Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire survival story
It is 1911, and fourteen-year-old Lucia (Lucy) Morelli dreams of going to college, but for the present she lives with her large Italian family in a crowded apartment in New York City, and works as a sewing machine operator in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory bringing home money because her father can no longer work--but this is March twenty-fifth, and Lucy will soon be fighting for her life as fire sweeps through the locked down factory trapping the workers inside.
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Journey to a new land

an oral history
2000
Elda Willitts recounts for the Ellis Island Oral History Project her childhood journey to America from Italy in 1916.
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