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Becoming America Year 2
=**Fall Seminar 7**= Thursday, October 28, 2010 Location: Everett High School, 100 Elm Street, Everett Map

Please come in the main doors (the side facing the park), sign in as necessary, and then walk straight back from the front doors (keeping the cafeteria and the curved red wall to your right) to the elevator in the right, back corner. Take the elevator to the 5th floor. When you get off, go left through the library doors to the main area. The TLC is in the Library Workroom (Room 5002). Note -- this is the **new** high school. Be careful if you are using a GPS. Thanks!

Scheduled topic:
//**Comparing Immigrants’ Struggles for Industrial Democracy: The Rising of the 20,000, NYC (1909) and the Lawrence MA Bread and Roses Strike (1912)**// Patricia A. Reeve, Ph.D., Suffolk University


 * Readings:**
 * 1) Lucille O'Connell, "The Lawrence Textile Strike of 1912: The Testimony of Two Polish Women," //Polish American Studies//, Vol. 36, No. 2 (Autumn, 1979): 44 - 62.
 * 2) "’Homes Are What Any Strike Is About’: Immigrant Labor and the Family Wage," //Journal of Social History//, Vol. 23, No. 2 (Winter, 1989): 267 - 284.

**POST SEMINAR REFLECTIONS** Please click on your grade level conceptual question to post your reflection after the seminar.

Overarching Focus: How have immigrants fought for American citizenship, 1840-1912? How did immigrants imagine freedom as they interpreted the founding documents? || ** Grade 5 ** What were immigrants' claims on citizenship? || ** Grades 8-10 ** How did immigrants respond to America's systemic inequalitites? ||
 * ** Grade K-3 **

Handouts:


Book Mentioned in Seminar: Radicals of the Worst Sort: Laboring Women in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1860-1912 By Ardis Cameron

More information about the seminar and about additional resources can be found on the //BA Blog//.