Audacity

De: Melanie Crowder

Narrado por: Ann Marie Gideon

A gorgeously told novel in verse written with intimacy and power, Audacity is inspired by the real-life story of Clara Lemlich, a spirited young woman who emigrated from Russia to New York at the turn of the 20th century and fought tenaciously for equal rights. Bucking the norms of both her traditional Jewish family and societal conventions, Clara refuses to accept substandard working conditions in the factories on Manhattan's Lower East Side. For years, Clara devotes herself to the labor fight, speaking up for those who suffer in silence. In time, Clara convinces the women in the factories to strike, organize, and unionize, culminating in the famous Uprising of the 20,000.

Powerful, breathtaking, and inspiring, Audacity is the story of a remarkable young woman, whose passion and selfless devotion to her cause changed the world.

©2015 Melanie Crowder (P)2019 Tantor

All of this really happened.

It was hard to believe that all of this really happened, but it did. The end of the book tells you about the real life person that the book is about and what she went through. this is a must-read book for everyone, adults and children. it is about women's suffrage but it is also about a woman who fought for workers rights and what she endured for that cause. it is about the history of labor unions in the early 1900s. the woman is originally from Russia and her family is Jewish. they move to America and thankfully it was before the Russian revolution. but in order to work in America, she had to work in factories in the south side of New York which were slums at that time. so it is very detailed, very emotional and very historic.