With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade

Duration: 45 min.

Year Published: 1978

Creator: newday

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Combines archival footage and interviews with participants to trace the role of women in the formation of the United Auto Workers. Focuses on the contributions of the Women's Emergency Brigade to the labor movement of the 1930's., A retrospective look at the Great General Motors Sit-down strike in Flint, Michigan in 1937 in which women, who started the Women's Emergency Brigade, formed the backbone of the action. Interviews with the participants are included, along with old newsreel footage.

Complete Record: , A retrospective look at the Great General Motors Sit-down strike in Flint, Michigan in 1937 in which women, who started the Women's Emergency Brigade, formed the backbone of the action. Interviews with the participants are included, along with old newsreel footage. NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.

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