Camella teoli biography books
This is the story of a young girl; an Italian immigrant; who was brought to America in hopes of a better life.
Carmela Teoli (– c.!
Carmela Teoli
Italian-American labor activist
Carmela Teoli (1897–c. 1970) was an Italian-American mill worker whose testimony before the U.S.
Congress in 1912 called national attention to unsafe working conditions in the mills and helped bring a successful end to the "Bread and Roses" strike. Teoli had been scalped by a cotton-twisting machine at the age of 13, requiring several months of hospitalization.
Decades later, a reporter named Paul Cowan revived Teoli's long-forgotten story, generating renewed interest in the history of the strike and prompting discussions on the nature of historical memory.
Biography
Carmela Teoli (also known as Camella Teoli) was born in Rocca d'Evandro, Italy on July 2, 1897[1] and grew up in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
In ''A Place at the Table: Struggles for Equality in America'' by Maria Fleming, Oxford University Press in association with Southern Poverty Law Center (2001), we can read: ''Most of the workers, including Carmela