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Uprising is a young-adult novel by Margaret Peterson Haddix published by Simon & Schuster in September 2007. The novel is a fictionalized account of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire . According to Maureen Paschal of The Washington Post , it "helps reinforce how immigrants have often struggled with hardship and unfairness".
Beauty Is in the Street: A Visual Record of the May 68 Uprising [1] is a 2011 book of posters produced by the Atelier Populaire (Popular Workshop) in support of the May 1968 events in France. It was edited by Johan Kugelberg with Philippe Vermés and published in the United Kingdom by Four Corners Books in 2011.
In 1745, Margaret accompanied her husband at the front of his regiment during the Jacobite uprising. [4] She was accused of inciting violence in Coupar Angus in October 1745, tearing down a poster of King George, while her husband stood with a drawn sword to intimidate a bailie into announcing that James VI and I was the true king.
It wasn't until 1990s where the impact of the Islamic Revolution became clearer as intolerant of women. This is when young women and activists started pushing against the Islamic ideologies, for instance, the processes of getting a divorce or wearing clothes that were considered "revealing" by the authoritarian rule.
Two women strikers on picket line during the "Uprising of the 20,000", garment workers strike, New York City. The ILGWU had a sudden upsurge in membership that came as the result of two successful mass strikes in New York City. The first, in 1909, was known as "the Uprising of 20,000" and lasted for thirteen weeks. [4]
By 1909, when the shirtwaist strike had broken out, the "mink brigade" was able to connect with the strikers through the Women’s Trade Union League (WTUL). The WTUL aimed to unite working-class women with middle-class women (who were known as "allies"). The union put members of the "mink brigade" into the picket line alongside the striking ...
Uprising, Netflix’s new Korean action-war epic, spans decades as it follows the fraught friendship between Cheon-yeong (Broker’s Gang Dong-won), a nobi slave with a knack for swordsmanship ...
Stormé DeLarverie (c. December 24, 1920 – May 24, 2014) was an American woman known as the butch lesbian whose scuffle with police was, according to DeLarverie and many eyewitnesses, the spark that ignited the Stonewall uprising, spurring the crowd to action. [3]