1979
Academy Awards
Documentary (Feature)
Anne Bohlen, Lyn Goldfarb and Lorraine Gray, Producers


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.
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1979
Documentary (Feature)
Anne Bohlen, Lyn Goldfarb and Lorraine Gray, Producers
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