"[3]) inspired the title of the poem Bread and Roses by James Oppenheim, published in The American Magazine in December 1911, which attributed it to "the women in the West."
Historians, writers, union representatives, artists and relatives of families linked to strikers present their insights into Lawrence's history in a centrally located tent.
[6] In honor of the centennial anniversary of the "Bread and Roses strike," The 1912 Strikers’ Monument Committee affixed a bronze relief to a boulder in Lawrence's historic Campagnone Common in October 2012.
Members of the Labor Community organized a march from the Polartec Building in Lawrence to the 2012 Bread & Roses Festival.
Speakers from the Merrimack Valley Central Labor Council and the Lawrence Teachers Union addressed those marching.
The exhibit is housed on the sixth floor of the Everett Mill building (15 Union St., Lawrence, MA), the very place where the strike began.