Mini: Bread & Roses

This handmade banner honors the historic rallying cry of the suffrage and labor movements: Bread and Roses. First spoken by activist Helen Todd in 1911 and later immortalized in James Oppenheim’s poem, the phrase stands for both fair wages (bread) and dignity, beauty, and quality of life (roses).

"As we come marching, marching, in the beauty of the day, / A million darkened kitchens, a thousand mill-lofts gray"