Elle Nicoletti: 2023 Junior Fellows Program Display Day

As a 2023 Junior Fellow, Elle Nicoletti worked with the Humanities and Social Sciences Section of the Researcher and Reference Services Division on a project titled "Local History of U.S. Immigrant Communities from 1880-1924," an ongoing project aimed at creating a more centralized, accessible, and diverse set of resources relating to immigrant history at the Library of Congress. The arrival of new populations to the United States during this period of intensive immigration resulted in the emergence of unique immigrant communities depending on nationality, ethnicity, religion, location, and many other factors. Using resources from across the Library, Elle worked to create a substantial research bibliography, as well as Today in History entries for the Library's website. The project module she developed, "Working Together: Immigrant Solidarity in the Garment Industry," looks at the intersection of immigration and the labor movement in the early 20th century by comparing two major labor strikes: the "Uprising of the 20,000" among garment workers in New York City (1909), and the "Bread and Roses" strike among textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts (1912). Together these strikes highlight the essential role of immigrant workers, and particularly young female workers, within the history of labor unions and the movement for workers' rights. By examining immigrant communities through the lens of these events, Elle's module seeks especially to foreground individual immigrant stories and experiences against the larger backdrop of cultural, historical and economic forces of the era.

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