EPIC MOMENTS IN U.S. WORKERS’ HISTORY 2016 (April-June)
CCBC-Essex 1:30-3:00 p.m.

April 13–The Factory Girls of Lowell Massachusetts in 1836
Daughters of Free Men
April 20–The 1877 Railroad Strike
1877: The Grand Army of Starvation
April 27–Homestead steel strike of 1892
The River Ran Red
May 4–Pullman car strike of 1894
Palace Cars and Paradise
May 11–The Uprising of the 20,000 in 1909
Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl
May 18–The textile workers national strike of 1934
The Uprising of ‘34
May 25–The Flint sit-down strike of 1936-37
The Great Sit-Down
June 1–The Memphis sanitation workers strike of 1968
At The River I Stand
June 8–The Brookside Mineworkers strike of 1972
Harlan County, USA
The P-9 strike against Hormel in 1985-86
American Dream

The Community College of Baltimore County
Bill Barry—instructor
bbarry@ccbcmd.edu
(410) 426-3966

* This is a class, not a festival, but it has many similar elements and may be useful for those organizing either labor film festivals or labor film classes