Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy

Zusatztext Starred Review! Publishers Weekly ! January 17! 2011: "Published to coincide with the centennial anniversary of the 1911 fire that erupted in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory! this powerful chronicle examines the circumstances surrounding the disaster...Marrin's message that protecting human dignity is our shared responsibility is vitally resonant." Starred Review! Booklist ! April 1! 2011: "Sure to spark discussion! this standout title concludes with source notes and suggested-reading lists that will lead students to further resources for research and debate." Starred Review! School Library Journal ! May 2011: "The writing is compelling and detailed! and the author effectively manages to bridge the gap between detached expository writing and emotionally charged content...this is a useful and thoughtful addition to any American history collection." Informationen zum Autor ALBERT MARRIN is the author of numerous highly regarded nonfiction books for young readers, including Years of Dust ; The Great Adventure: Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of Modern America ; and Sitting Bull and His World . His many honors include the Washington Children's Book Guild and Washington Post Non-Fiction Award for an "outstanding lifetime contribution that has enriched the field of children's literature," the James Madison Book Award for lifetime achievement, and the National Endowment for Humanities Medal. Klappentext Marrin tells the harrowing account of the tragic fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City in 1911 that killed 146 people. Entwined is the story of immigration in early 20th-century America and of the hard work to make it in a new country. I HUDDLED MASSES Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door! --Emma Lazarus, "The New Colossus" (1883), inscription on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty Immigration Old and New In the spring of 1903, Sadie Frowne, age thirteen, and her mother sailed into New York Harbor aboard a steamship crowded with immigrants from Europe. Finally, their voyage had ended. As the passengers gathered on deck, Sadie recalled, they marveled at a giant green figure that seemed to rise out of the water. She never forgot "the big woman with the spikes on her head and the lamp that is lighted at night in her hand." Thus, the Statue of Liberty welcomed the newcomers to the United States and, they prayed, to a better life. Although America has always been a land of hope, immigrants have come from different places, at different times, for different reasons. This has led historians to divide immigration into two phases: old and new. The old immigration began in colonial times, more than a century before the United States existed as an independent nation. Over the generations, immigrants came from western and northern Europe: England, Scotland, Ireland, Holland, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Denmark. Except for Irish Catholics, most "old" immigrants were of the Protestant faith and could read and write their native language. Despite hardships, these people soon found their place in America. The shift from the old to the new immigration began in the 1880s. While immigrants continued to arrive from the familiar places, a flood of humanity also came from southern and eastern Europe: Italy, Greece, Hungary, Romania, Poland, Russia. By 1910, people from these countries made up seven out of ten immigrants entering the United States, chiefly through New York City. Of these, the vast majority were Italians (mainly Catholic) and Jews from Russia. Because nearly all the victims of the Triangle Fire were from these two groups, we must look at them closely...

Product details

• Authors: Albert Marrin
• Publisher: Random House Childrens Books US
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.02.2011
• EAN: 9780375868894
• ISBN: 978-0-375-86889-4
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 245 mm x 211 mm x 19 mm