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

1978-12-31
6
en 45m
Documentary
Combining rare archival footage with interviews recorded forty years after the event, this documentary tells the story of the Women’s Emergency Brigade during the 1936–37 General Motors sit-down strike in Flint, Michigan. While national attention focused on the men occupying the factories, women—auto workers and the families of strikers—organized food supplies, picket lines, and public demonstrations that helped sustain the historic labor victory. The film highlights their long-overlooked role in the American labor movement.

Director

Lorraine Gray

Producer

Lorraine Gray

Producer

Anne Bohlen

Producer

Lyn Goldfarb

Original Music Composer

Steve Gray

Production Manager

Anne Bohlen

trade union labor strike labor union woman director

Status

Released

Countries

  • United States of America

Companies

  • Women's Labor History Film Project
  • New Day Films