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Videos

Chicago's Packinghouse Workers: Their Story

Tells how ethnic and racial hostility was overcome to form an exceptional union at the forefront of the Civil Rights Movement.

Video - 60 minutes

218 - Video - $22.50

Women Leaders of Labor

Over teacups four women labor leaders from the years before World War I talk about their careers and women's issues of the time. Mary Kenney O'Sullivan, Agnes Nestor, Mary Anderson, and Lucy Parsons.

Video - 30 minutes

219 - Video - $22.50

The Struggle to End Child Labor

Uses actors, panelists, and pictures to tell the story of Child Labor in the 1900's. Updates current Illinois regulations governing minor employment.

Video - 30 minutes

213 - Video - $22.50

  Memorial Day Massacre of 1937

Contains uncut and uncensored newsreel film from Republic Steel Demonstration. Ten men killed, scores wounded by police. Includes discussion of events leading up to and following this tragic day.

201 - B&W, 17 min., Institutional - $50.00


201p - Restricted to personal use - $25.00

 

  Palace Cars & Paradise

Our popular tour guide, Bill Adelman, walks the streets of Pullman, the Chicago community built by George Pullman in the 1880's to house company employees. He tells the story of this model town, its architecture and social structure. Hailed as a "paradise" at the time, it lost its luster in the Great Pullman Strike of 1894, a landmark conflict in American history. This is still a living community, the area remains much as it was over on hundred years ago.

200 - Color, 28 min, Institutional $50.00


200p - restricted to personal use - $35.00

 

  Discovering Illinois Labor History

A survey of the highlights from Illinois Labor History. Begins with underground coal mine footage and features the Pullman story, the organizational campaign to the CIO, and Haymarket. The Martyrs' Monument in Forest Home Cemetery is the backdrop for much of this film. Produced by Southern Illinois University.

203 - Color, 30 min., $25.00

 

  When Art Speaks Labor's Language:
Chicago's Mural Paintings

Les Orear leads this tour of three great exterior Chicago mural paintings on labor themes. The images used by the artists are explained.

211 - Color, 24 min., $22.50

    

  The Pullman Porters: From Servitude to Civil Rights

How the Pullman Porters built their own union, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Produced by WTTW.

214 - Color, 30min., $22.50

 

  Our Lady of Guadelupe: Mexican Steelworkers

The Mexican steelworker community of Chicago's southeast side. Produced by WTTW.

215 - Color, 30min., $22.50

 

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