A Steelworker Strikes for "Eight Hours a Day and Better Conditions"
The steel strike of 1919 saw some 350,000 workers walk off the job, temporarily bringing the steel industry to a halt. The U.S. Senate Committee on Education and Labor investigated, interviewing striking steelworkers such as Slavic immigrant Andrew [...]
Selected Scenes from Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl Script
This script of selected scenes from the documentary Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl includes vocabulary defintions for difficult or archaic words.
Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl Viewer's Guide
This booklet, divided into nine sections, is curriculum support for the American Social History Project 30-minute documentary Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl. The viewer's guide contains background information on issues raised by the [...]
A Worker Recalls Her Time at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
In this oral history conducted by historian Joan Morrison, Pauline Newman told of getting a job at the Triangle Company as a child, soon after arriving in the United States from Lithuania in 1901. Newman described her life as an immigrant and [...]
"Life in the Shop": The Story of an Immigrant Garment Worker
Clara Lemlich ignited the 1909 walkout of shirtwaist makers with her call for a general strike. This piece was first published in the New York Evening Journal, November 28, 1909.
A Bracero Protests Low Pay and Discrimination
Although he had received a rare scholarship to attend middle school, Andrés Héctor Quezada Lara dropped out to become a bracero. His work took him to many places in the United States, including South Dakota, Minnesota, Illinois, [...]
1877: The Grand Army of Starvation Viewer's Guide
This booklet is curriculum support for the American Social History Project's 30-minute documentary 1877: The Grand Army of Starvation. The viewer's guide contains background information on issues raised by the documentary as well as additional [...]
Daughters of Free Men Viewer's Guide
This booklet is curriculum support for the American Social History Project's 30-minute documentary Daughters of Free Men. The viewer's guide contains background information on issues raised by the documentary as well as additional primary source [...]
Active Viewing: Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl "Setting the Scene" worksheet
This worksheet is designed to help students focus on the information presented during the first two minutes of the Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl documentary.
Active Viewing: Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl Vocabulary
These words and phases from the Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl documentary may be unfamiliar to students.