Fannia Cohn
Fannia Cohn · Civil Rights & Human Rights
ILGWU labor leader and pioneer of workers' education who advanced the rights and training of working women in the garment industry.
1885, Kletsk, Belarus (then Russian Empire) — 1962, New York City, USA
Russian Empire; New York City
Fannia Cohn is recognized among Jewish contributors to Civil Rights & Human Rights — ILGWU labor leader and pioneer of workers' education who advanced the rights and training of working women in the garment industry.
Fannia Cohn was a Jewish labor leader in the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union and a pioneer of the American workers' education movement. Born to a Jewish family in what is now Belarus, she emigrated in 1904, organized garment workers, and became the ILGWU's first female vice president. She devoted her life to the training, dignity and rights of working women.
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Source: Jewish Women's Archive
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ILGWU labor leader and pioneer of workers' education who advanced the rights and training of working women in the garment industry.
Source: Jewish Women's Archive
