Labor History Landmark: No. 6 Washington Square
The Top 11 Labor History Landmarks in New York City is a blog series on Jewesses with Attitude created in honor of Women's History Month and the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Waist Factory fire. Learn more about the series here, or check out JWA's online walking tour.
The 6th of the Top 11 Labor History Landmarks in New York City is Washington Square.
A week after the Triangle fire, a large funeral procession organized by the Jewish unions set out from the Forward building. Another procession, made up mostly of non-Jewish union members, suffragists, and socialists, met them at Washington Square. The two groups, numbering over 100,000, marched together through a driving rain up Fifth Avenue; 50,000 more stood along the route.