Interviewing labor and women's rights activist, and educator June Rostan
Program includes an excerpt of a 1978 interview with songwriter and labor rights activist Florence Reece.
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Program includes an excerpt of a 1978 interview with songwriter and labor rights activist Florence Reece.
Discussing the Equal Rights Amendment with Illinois Representative Susan Catania and political activists Clara Day and Margaret Klimkowski.
Since no men were allowed to picket against the Phelps Dodge Corp., Mexican American women showed up and according to Kingsolver’s book, “Holding the Line,” the picket lines were a brand new experience for the women. Some of the women had to get their husbands’ permission to picket. The group of women found their lives transformed not only with their cause but with new bonds of friendship from the other women.