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

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

6.0
1978
0h 45m
HD
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.

Top Cast

G

Genora Dollinger

B

Babe Gelles

L

Lillian Hatcher

M

Mary Handa

H

Helen Hauer

L

Laura Hayward

N

Nellie Bessons Hendrix

D

Della Parrish

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