Rose Pesotta Audio-Visual Materials

Rose Pesotta's video collection including Goodyear strikes, parade footage, parties, and other miscellaneous union gatherings

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pesotta, Rose (Creator)
Format: Kit
Language:English
Subjects:
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520 3 |a Rose Pesotta's video collection including Goodyear strikes, parade footage, parties, and other miscellaneous union gatherings 
524 |a Rose Pesotta Audio-Visual Materials #5928 AV. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library 
540 |a This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and Procedures for Document Use 
544 |d Related Collections: 5928: Elaine Leeder Collection of Rose Pesotta Papers 5928 P: Rose Pesotta Photographs 6036/027: Elaine Leeder "The Gentle Warrior: Rose Pesotta, Anarchist and Labor Organizer" Dissertation  
545 |a 1896 Born in Derazhnya, Russia, November 20 
545 |a 1909-12 Attended Rosalia Davidoffs private girls' School 
545 |a 1913 Arrived in USA with her grandmother 
545 |a 1914 Joined Local 25, ILGWU 
545 |a 1914-24 Worked as a seamstress 
545 |a 1919 Theodore Kushnarev deported to Russia 
545 |a 1922 Attended Bryn Mawr summer school 
545 |a 1924-26 Attended Brookwood Labor College 
545 |a 1926-33 Worked as a seamstress in NYC 
545 |a 1930 Attended Wisconsin summer school 
545 |a 1933 Organized in Los Angeles for ILGWU 
545 |a 1934 Elected Vice-President of ILGWU 
545 |a 1935 Organized in Seattle 
545 |a 1936 Organized rubber workers in Akron 
545 |a 1937 Organized auto workers in Flint for CIO 
545 |a 1942 Vacation in Mexico 
545 |a 1944 Resigned as ILGWU vice president 
545 |a 1945 Worked for Anti-Defamation League of the B'nai B'rith 
545 |a 1946 Traveled to Norway, Sweden, Poland 
545 |a 1949 Worked as Midwest regional director for the American Trade Union Council of the Histadrut 
545 |a 1950 Visited Europe and Israel 
545 |a 1955 Married Albert Martin (Frank Lopez) 
545 |a 1958 Published "Days of Our Lives" 
545 |a 1965 Died in Miami, Florida on December 6 
545 |a Began involvement with Powers Hapgood 
545 |a Born Rakhel Peisoty in Derazhnia, Ukraine in 1896 to grain merchants, Pesotta was well educated and influenced by the Narodnaya Volya (People's Will), and eventually adopted anarchist views 
545 |a CHRONOLOGY 
545 |a Death of Powers Hapgood 
545 |a Father dies in Derazhnya 
545 |a In 1933 the union sent her to Los Angeles to organize the garment workers there. The organizing of the Mexican immigrant garment workers lead to the Los Angeles Garment workers Strike of 1933. As a result of this success, she was made vice-president of the union in 1934 
545 |a In 1944, she resigned from the executive board of the union in protest of the fact that, despite 85% of the union's memebership were women, she was the sole female executive member 
545 |a Organized in Buffalo 
545 |a Organized in Montreal 
545 |a Pesotta emigrated to New York City at the age of 17 (1913), and found employment in a shirtwaist factory, she joined the ILGWU very soon after. The ILGWU was a union that represented mostly Jewish and Latina female garment workers. She was elected to the all male executive board of ILGWU Local 25 in 1920. Pesotta went to Brookwood Labor College for two years in the 1920s 
545 |a Published "Bread Upon the Waters" 
545 |a Reelected to second term as vice president 
545 |a Researched Sacco-Vanzetti case for Local 25 
545 |a Resigned from ADL and returned to New York City as a seamstress 
545 |a Returned to Montreal to organize 
545 |a Rose Pesotta died in 1965 
545 |a Sent to Puerto Rico to organize seamstresses 
545 |a Slashed by razor during Cleveland Knitting Mill Strike 
546 |a Collection material in English 
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