25225 UAW - Battle of the Overpass Image Gallery

Item

Title

25225 UAW - Battle of the Overpass Image Gallery

Source

James. E Kilpatrick, PhotoID 25225, May 26, 1937, UAW - Battle of the Overpass Image Gallery, Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University

Description

UAW organizers, members of the UAW Local 174 Women's Auxiliary and their supporters are forced back from the Ford Rouge Plant and into the Detroit Street Railway waiting area by Ford Service Department employees during the Battle of the Overpass.

The African American man at center is identified as "Jones."

Item sets

Late 1930s-1942 (Team 1)

Media

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