Bread and Roses Lecture Dr. Annelise Orleck, “What if Poor Women Ran the World? Some Lessons from Las Vegas”
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Posted by Web Team, March 16, 2007
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Wednesday, March 21 at 4:30 pm in the Linda K. Paresky Conference Center. Dr Orleck will be presented with the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights Outstanding Book Award, by President Susan Scrimshaw, for her book, “Storming Caesar’s Palce: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty”.
The Bread and Roses event honors women Lawrence mill workers, most of them immigrant women, who demanded not only fair wages, but also the “roses” needed for a satisfying life. In this spirit the event honors present day activism.
