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Get your pickets, it's pickets picketing pickets spring! Three different reporters all had the same great idea when covering this argument between Local 1 and Local 4 in 1961.
📸: SEIU International Vice-President Records here at the Reuther Library WSU
Loving the slide rule and jar of face powder on this 1952 poster from our SWE collections! #WomenInEngineering #WomenInSTEM #ArchivesHashtagParty #ArchivesWomenInSTEM
Buttons from the Susan Holleran Papers. Holleran was a journalist for AFSCME and founding member of CLUW National, among many other roles. archives.wayne.edu/repositories/2… #WomensHistoryMonth National NOW
At the opening reception of Judge Damon Keith’s exhibit at the Museum of African American History. Reuther Library WSU Peter Hammer
On this day in 1995:
Detroit labor leader Horace Sheffield Jr. dies michiganadvance.com/briefs/on-this… via @michiganadvance Changed To Change! Reuther Library WSU UAW UAW_Archivist
' Reuther Library WSU celebrates Black History Month with a brief review of the important role that African Americans have played in the formation and growth of the UAW, and the influence of black UAW members within the polity of Detroit.'
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Founded during a bloody encounter between police and strikers, their purpose was to put themselves between the cops and the strikes, to shield the men with their lives if necessary. “We weren’t a tea-drinking society.” — Genora Johnson Dollinger. #SitDownStrike
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Roscoe Van Zandt, a janitor at Chevrolet Plant Four, is the only Black worker officially acknowledged to have sat down inside the plants. When strikers marched out victorious on February 11, 1937, Van Zandt was chosen to carry the U.S. flag. 📸 Reuther Library WSU #SitDownStrike
Participants in the UAW's bowling tourney in Detroit, 1947. Integrated events like this were part of the union's larger campaign to force the American Bowling Congress to drop its policy of segregation. From the UAW's newspaper, at the Reuther Library WSU🎳 #BlackHistoryMonth
Key to disrupting business as usual at GM was controlling the equipment by staying inside the plant. A group of 50 men started the Sit Down Strike in Flint, MI, by sitting down in protest and beginning a 44-day occupation.
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Join #UAW President Shawn Fain at the 21st Detroit Martin Luther King Day Rally & March at 12 pm ET.
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The more some things change the more they stay the same! Old Main - then vs. now.
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🎥 Walter Reuther talking tough about the 1961 GM strike, the #UAW Women's Auxiliary Brigades supporting the strikers, and more. Check out the hidden gems in the film canisters at the Reuther Library film vault.
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