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

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

December 31, 1978 | 45 min

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.

Genres

Documentary

Cast

Naomi Scott

Genora Dollinger

Naomi Scott

Babe Gelles

Naomi Scott

Lillian Hatcher

Naomi Scott

Mary Handa

Naomi Scott

Helen Hauer

Naomi Scott

Laura Hayward

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