Module 06: "Which Side Are You On?" The Flint Sit-Down Strike, 1936-37

Evidence 16: A Striker Sleeping in a Makeshift Bed, January 1937

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Introduction

Strikers slept in improvised beds made from the seats and the wadding used to stuff them.

Document

Young Striker Sleeping

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Source:
Library of Congress, LC-USF34- 040030-D, Farm Security Administration, Office of War Information Photograph Collection. Downloaded from the American Memory website, http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html.

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