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

From our Jon Maloy Collection: With Babies and Banners: Story of the Women’s Emergency Brigade combines archival footage with interviews to chronicle the integral role women played during the 1930s labor movement. The 1979 documentary was produced by the Women’s Labor History Film Project. In 1936, factory workers organized a sit-down strike at General Motors in Flint, Michigan, to protest poor working conditions and wages. In response, women who were either related to workers or were themselves workers organized themselves into the Women’s Emergency Brigade with the purpose of aiding the strikers and bringing momentum to the cause. The filmmakers (notably all women) interview the women primarily involved, including Genora Johnson Dollinger, Dellah Parrish, Nellie Besson Hendrix, Mary Handa, Babe Gelles, Helen Hauer, Lillian Hatcher, Laura Hayward, and Teeter Walker. Each individual provides accounts of their personal experiences before and during the strike, as well as the ways in which their actions helped evolve the roles and statuses of women in America. Watch on TexasArchive.org https://texasarchive.org/2018_00618