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Two Adolescent Activists: Consiglia Rocco

Michael Ceraolo

Becoming one of the wounded in the war against workers
and testifying about the experience before Congress
weren’t the only ways a teenager could help win a strike
With half of the more than 25,000 striking workers
being women, there were other duties to be fulfilled
so that solidarity could be maintained
Consiglia and her mother
turned their weekly bread baking
into planning and strategy sessions;
she would also watch the children of the strikers
so their mothers could picket
(and be subjected to such abuses as being hosed
in January in Massachusetts,
in an attempt to get them to disperse)
She also helped provide food to the strikers,
and all the unsung necessary work
helped the strike to be won
And then she slipped back in anonymity,
where she, unlike Camella, remains:
her resurrection not yet as public as Camella’s,
though she is equally deserving of such

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