Many of the victims of the fire were trapped on the 8th floor of the factory, and jumped from windows to their deaths on sidewalks below. Crowds gathered from adjacent Washington Square Park as the ...
More than 100 years after the fire that altered the course of worker safety in the United States, workers in other parts of the world still wait for justice. On Saturday, March 25, 1911, a fire broke ...
Friday marks the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire, a tragedy that killed 146 garment workers, many of them young, immigrant women. Some even leapt to their deaths rather than burn ...
A group knows as Girls on the Run helps young girls boost their confidence, connection and friendship through lessons that incorporates running, skipping, hopping and other physical activity to ...