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“The Picket Line”, April 3, 1941.
Beginning April 1, 1941, the employees at Ford’s River Rouge plant staged an 10-day strike to protest, among other things, the firing of 8 mill workers. The outcome was a milestone in the history of the unionization. At strike’s end Ford officially granted recognition to the United Auto Workers, the last of the “Big Three” automakers to capitulate. Above, an employee is met with stiff resistance as he tries to break to picket line. This photograph, by Detroit News photographer Milton Brooks, was awarded the first Pulitzer Prize for photography in 1942.
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