March 25 in American History
A fire tore through a crowded New York garment factory where doors had been locked to keep workers in, killing 146 people, most of them young immigrant women. The horror led to sweeping new workplace safety and labor laws. A tragedy that forced the country to reckon with the human cost of unregulated industry.
In 1911: the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. A fire tore through a crowded New York garment factory where doors had been locked to keep workers in, killing 146 people, most of them young immigrant women.
A fire tore through a crowded New York garment factory where doors had been locked to keep workers in, killing 146 people, most of them young immigrant women. The horror led to sweeping new workplace safety and labor laws. A tragedy that forced the country to reckon with the human cost of unregulated industry.
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