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  • With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade (1979)
  • 45 min | Documentary, History
With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women's Emergency Brigade (1979)
45 min | Documentary, History
From December 1936 to February 1937 members of the United Auto Workers organized a sit-down strike inside the General Motors Fisher Body 1 and 2 plants in Flint, Michigan. They ultimately won recognition of their union and improved wages ...See moreFrom December 1936 to February 1937 members of the United Auto Workers organized a sit-down strike inside the General Motors Fisher Body 1 and 2 plants in Flint, Michigan. They ultimately won recognition of their union and improved wages and conditions. "With Babies and Banners" tells the story of the Women's Emergency Brigade, composed of female GM workers and the wives of men involved in the sit-down strike, which not only provided support services (like running the union kitchens that provided food to the strikers occupying the plants) but did picket duty themselves. It intercuts footage from 1937 with interviews with the same women 40 years later, still active in union politics and still pressuring the UAW to acknowledge women as equals. Written by Mark Gabrish Conlan See less
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Director
Lorraine Gray
Cinematographers
Ting Barrow | Lorraine Gray (as Lorraine W. Gray) | Max Reid
Editors
Mary Lampson | Melanie Maholick
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Updated Feb 6, 1979
Release date
Feb 6, 1979 (United States)
Awards
Nominated for 1 Oscar Award.

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