Ford Hunger March

25 Mar 2009 March 7 was the 77th anniversary of one of the bloodiest chapters in Detroit labor history: the Ford Hunger March of 1932.

7 Mar 2008 "The Ford Hunger March began on Detroit's East Side and proceeded 10 miles seeking relief during the Great Depression. Facing hunger and

Sugar, Maurice, The Ford Hunger March. Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute, Berkeley, California, 1980. 146 pages. Sugar was a famous labor lawyer in the

11 Jul 2010 The 1932 Ford Hunger March massacre:The unemployed get bullets, not bread The Ford Hunger March took place in the midst of the Great

In 1932 Dave Moore joined over 3000 people to protest against the Ford Motor Company. He marched with them and witnessed the brutality that caused five

4 Mar 1999 On March 7, the Ford Hunger March from Detroit was organized by John Schmies, communist candidate for mayor of Detroit, and led by Albert

16 Aug 2010 Tags: AFL-CIO • Bonus March • Dave Welsh • Ford Hunger March • Fred Goldstein • Martin Luther King Jr. • New Deal • President Franklin

Ford Hunger March; March 7, 1932. Fort Street Bridge crossing the Rouge River near Miller Road. Return to Historical Sites · Return to Home Page.

Ford Hunger March. Union Brothers and Sisters; With the recent additions and This happened during the famous Ford Hunger March also known as the Battle

6 Jul 2009 The Michigander, straining under the weight of the great depression, extinguished many of his operations. Gross numbers of men were

An enhanced version of the Ford Hunger March with Dave Moore is included with two other personal stories that chronicle Black History in Michigan.

The Ford Hunger March became international news in 1932. Scott Nearing, noted economist and lecturer visited Detroit at this time and gave a talk entitled,

In the play Steve plays Joe Cantor, an unemployed auto worker; Joe Bussell, who was killed in the Ford Hunger March; a member of the worker's chorus;

18 Mar 2002 The Ford Hunger March of 1932 may have marked a set-back to the workers' movement – for a brief period – as did a number of other strikes

The incident damaged Ford's reputation and radicalized many workers. Together with the Bonus Army, the Ford Hunger March demonstrated the depth of the

In Detroit, Michigan during the great depression, Dave Moore was a hungry young black man without work. In 1932 when over three thousand people protested

The Ford Hunger March was a demonstration of unemployed workers starting in Detroit and ending in Dearborn, Michigan, that took place on March 7, 1932.

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21 May 2009 Moore, a veteran of the Ford Hunger March who later helped organize the United Auto Workers' famous Local 600 at Ford's Rouge plant in 1941,

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