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Triangle to Triumph: How Frances Perkins Turned the Fire That Killed 146 Into the Laws That Saved Millions

Triangle to Triumph: How Frances Perkins Turned the Fire That Killed 146 Into the Laws That Saved Millions

Tevidii, John

Paperback

Historical Figures20th Century United States HistorySocial Movements

ISBN13: 9798199387507
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 31 2026
Pages: 202
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
She was having tea when the screaming started.

It was a Saturday afternoon in March 1911, and Frances Perkins was thirty years old, visiting friends near Washington Square. She followed the noise out to the street and found herself standing under the Triangle Shirtwaist factory, looking up at girls on a ninth-floor ledge with the fire behind them and the doors locked. She watched them decide whether to jump. One of them fixed her hat first, the way you would before going outside. The whole thing took forty minutes. A hundred and forty-six people died, most of them young women, some of them children.

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