Sit-downers Memorial Monument Artists Rendition

First UAW GM Contact Agreement, UAW Local Unions celebrate February 11 1937 on White Shirt Day. Workers wear white shirts to work on Feb. 11 of every year in memory of the Great Flint Sit-down Strike.

February 11 1937. Workers celebrating victory around calendar they checked off each day in the shop during the sit-down.

Flint Sit-down Striker Ralph Lockhart is shown at top left with his right hand extended upwards, next to man in corner with a hat. In 2006, and in his 90's, he and his wife Mildred, who was a member of the Women's Emergency Brigade during the strike, are still standing up for the UAW as proud UAW members.

Text version of first U.A.W. G.M. contract agreement and Flint Mi. Sit-Down History journal diary audio Great Depression links Labor Day Studs Terkel "Conversations with America" 1973 interviews WFMT radio Chicago, Illinois "Hard Times" book audio interviews On The Great Depression of the 1930's www.studsterkel.org/htimes.php Audio Interview with Great Flint Sit Down Striker Sit-downer http://dlv1.matrix.msu.edu:8080/ramgen/terkel/a0/a0/terkel-a0a0n6-b.rm Text of 1937 Agreement: http://community-2.webtv.net/geneseecounty/uawgmcontract/ More General Motors UAW sit-down and auto history links, book bibliography, labor colleges and other assorted websites http://community-2.webtv.net/uhhuhdotcom/uhhuh/ Diary of a Sit-downer http://community-2.webtv.net/uhhuhdotcom/diaryofasitdowner/ Sit Down Diary on different background with first contract at end and more links. http://community-2.webtv.net/blacklava/flintsitdown/ United Auto Worker contract history time line 1935 - 1999 www.uawregion8.net/UAW-History-timeline.htm They Took a Stand by Sitting Down, Great Flint Sit-Down Strikers of 1936-1937 www.cnn.com/US/9807/06/gm.strike.history.02/ The Great Flint Sit-down Strike Organization www.historicalvoices.org/flint/organization.php FLINT LABOR HISTORY PROJECT - GENESEE HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS - UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN FLINT - FRANCES WILLSON THOMPSON LIBRARY www.lib.umflint.edu/archives/labor.html The Flint Journal local newspaper 125th Anniversary 1876 - 2001 edition www.flintjournal.com/125/index.html Settlement of the 1937 General Motors Sit-down Strike the newspapers Number One story during the 1876 to 2001 time frame. Number Two was the 1953 Beecher Tornado and Number Three was Billy Durant: the birth of the auto industry and the creation of G. M. in Flint Michigan during this time line www.flintjournal.com/125/past/top10.html The Punch Press OFFICIAL STRIKE BULLETINS 1937 mimeographed by University of Michigan students news for the Great Flint Sit-down strikers from THE UNIVERSITY of WISCONSIN GOLDA MEIR LIBRARY SPECIAL COLLECTIONS http://www.uwm.edu/Libraries/special/punch_press/original.htm MICHIGAN EPIC The Flint Strike www.michiganepic.org/flintstrike/ Ace reporter - Flint Sit-down strike www.michiganepic.org/flintstrike/Editorial.html WEBQUEST! LESSON PLANS FOR UNIONS: THEN AND NOW. THE NEW DEAL AND MORE! www.davison.k12.mi.us/newdeal/unions.htm SITDOWN PAGE www.davison.k12.mi.us/newdeal/union3.htm Strike songs from the Flint Auto Worker - January 1937 www.davison.k12.mi.us/newdeal/songs.htm AUDIO GALLERY: www.historicalvoices.org/flint/organization.php THE MOST IMPORTANT STRIKE IN HISTORY www.detnews.com/history/flint/flint.htm Sit-down http://spot.colorado.edu/~wehr/491R8.TXT REMEMBERING FLINT www.radio4all.org/anarchy/uaw.html I'M ON A SITDOWN STRIKE FOR RHYTHM - Lil Hardin Armstrong and Her Swing Orchestra - recorded April 15, 1937. www.heptune.com/lyrics/imonasit.html THE FLINT SITDOWN FOR BEGINNERS www.sdi.com/atc/post62.txt LEST WE FORGET - FLINT PIONEERS TRIBUTE www.ais.org/~jrh/searchlight/lest.we.forget.txt MICHIGAN HISTORICAL MUSEUM "LABOR UNIONS RISE" www.sos.state.mi.us/history/museum/explore/museums/hismus/1900-75/depressn/laborun.html THE British Broadcasting Corporation BBC - 1936-37 FLINT, MICHIGAN Sit Down STRIKE www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A672310 Sit-down and New Deal writings: http://newdeal.feri.org/nation/na37144p175.htm A G.M. Stockholder Visits Flint http://newdeal.feri.org/nation/na37144p123.htm Relief in the Sit-Down Strike http://newdeal.feri.org/texts/494.htm Flint Faces Civil War http://newdeal.feri.org/texts/832.htm Profile of General Motors http://newdeal.feri.org/texts/854.htm Auto Workers Strike 1933 http://newdeal.feri.org/texts/724.htm Report, Flint Michigan 1934 http://newdeal.feri.org/texts/159.htm FLINT SITDOWN STRIKE COMPUTER SIMULATION: www.cs.colorado.edu/%7El3d/systems/agentsheets/New-Vista/flint-strikes/intro.html Sit-Down Monument Unveiled www.uawlocal1292.org/sitdownmonument.html Janice Trimpe, Master Sculptor of Sit-Down Monument www.trimpesculpture.com/uaw803.htm www.trimpesculpture.com/uaw2.htm History Labor Day how it came about & what it means www.dol.gov/opa/aboutdol/laborday.htm History Observance of Labor Day www.wilstar.com/holidays/laborday.htm Origins of Labor Day www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business/september96/labor_day_9-2.html American Labor History online study guide www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Quad/6460/AmLabHist/

Photos of Sitdowner Memorial - Monument

Sculpted by Master Sculptor Janice Trimpe
www.TrimpeSculpture.com

Another Picture of Monument

Please visit monument at UAW Region 1-C in Flint, Michigan.

New Sit-Down Monument, another view.

Old Sit-down Monument