(8407) 1941 Ford Strike, violence, Dearborn, Michigan

Striking auto workers beat a “scab” worker as he tries to cross the picket line and enter the Ford Rouge Plant, Dearborn, Michigan. "The Picket Line", captured by Milton Brooks, a photographer for the Detroit News, was the winner of the first Pulitzer Prize for Photography.

(8407) 1941 Ford Strike, violence, Dearborn, Michigan
Date: 
April 3, 1941
Physdesc: 
Photograph
Photographer: 
Milton "Pete" Brooks