Film
The Willmar 8 + I Am Somebody
- 4:30PM
Q&A with filmmaker Madeline Anderson moderated by Michelle Materre.
Dir. Lee Grant
1981, 50min, DCP
Oscar-winning actress, director, and one-time blacklistee Lee Grant tells the remarkable story of the Willmar 8, a band of Minnesota women who embarked on the longest bank strike in American history in protest of gender discrimination.
Dir. Madeline Anderson
1969, 28min, 16mm
Pioneering black filmmaker Madeline Anderson directs this chronicle of a watershed moment in both the civil rights and labor movements—when 400 black women hospital workers in South Carolina stood up to the National Guard to demand union recognition.
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