Q2: How did the Flint strike affect men, women, and families?
Formative Task:
Students will respond to questions regarding video footage of the Flint strike as well as primary sources from the strikers’ perspective assessing the effect the strike had on men, women, and families.
Sources:
- History Channel video clip from “The People Speak” Marissa Tomei performs the words of a General Motors employee during a 1930s labor strike.
- "Genora Dollinger Remembers the 1936-37 GM Sit-Down Strike"
- Title
- Description
- Contributor
- Creator
- Date
- Identifier
- Language
- Source
- Subject
- Type
- Original Format
- extracted text
-
Outline of women's strike activities
-
A list of the activities of women in the labor movement of the 1930s with particular focus on the Flint Sit-Down Strike
-
Dorothy Kraus
-
Dorothy Kraus
-
circa 1937
-
LP001221_002_009
-
English
-
Women in the labor movement
-
Notes
-
Paper
Item sets
- Title
- Description
- Creator
- Date
- Source
- Original Format
-
Strikes: Fisher Body: Flint, Michigan 1937 -In Front of Plant 1
-
A line of auto workers with facial hair march at Fisher Body Plant holding a sign reading, "we shave when victory is ours"
-
Detroit News Photographers
-
1937
-
Photo print
Item sets
- Title
- Description
- Creator
- Language
-
Flint Sit Down Strike (1936-37)
-
A video from the UAW showing the Flint Sit-Down strike on film from the time.
-
United Auto Workers
-
English
Item sets
- Title
- Description
- Creator
- Date
- Format
- Identifier
- Language
- Source
- Subject
-
"What the Women Did in Flint" article by Mary Heaton Vorse
-
An article outlining the work women did to support the Flint Sit-Down Strike
-
Mary Heaton Horse
-
unknown
-
Magazine article
-
LP000112_009_027
-
English
-
Henry Kraus Papers, Box 9 Folder 27, Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs
-
Flint Sit-Down Strike
Item sets
