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245 00 Struggles in Steel.|h[Kanopy electronic resource] 
264  1 [San Francisco, California, USA] :|bKanopy Streaming,
       |c2015. 
300    1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 57 min.) :
       |bdigital, .flv file, sound 
336    two-dimensional moving image|btdi|2rdacontent 
337    computer|bc|2rdamedia 
338    online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 
344    digital 
347    video file|bMPEG-4|bFlash 
500    Title from title frames. 
518    Originally produced by California Newsreel in 1996. 
520    The current angry debates around affirmative action too 
       often ignore their historical roots: how prior to 
       government intervention African Americans were confined to
       the most back-breaking, dangerous and low paid work. 
       Struggles in Steel documents the shameful history of 
       discrimination against black workers and one heroic 
       campaign where they won equality on the job. The film is 
       the result of a unique collaboration. Black steelworker 
       Ray Henderson was angered by the lack of coverage of 
       African American workers on the news so he contacted his 
       old high school buddy, noted independent filmmaker Tony 
       Buba, and suggested they collaborate to set the record 
       straight. Together they interviewed more than 70 retired 
       black steelworkers who tell heart-rending tales of 
       struggles with the company, the union and white co-workers
       to break out of the black job ghetto. With Henderson as 
       guide, they retrace a century of black industrial history 
       - the use of blacks as strikebreakers against the all-
       white union during the 1892 Homestead Strike, the Great 
       Migration of fieldworkers to the North in World War I, the
       racial divisions between workers during the Great Steel 
       Strike of 1919 and the ultimate success of the CIO 
       organizing drives of the 1930s. When black vets returned 
       to the mills after WWII, they found they were still locked
       into the worst jobs with no rights to bid on better-paying,
       higher-skilled work such as supervisor, millwright or even
       painter. The steelworkers recount how, after the passage 
       of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, they secretly documented 
       instances of discrimination and in 1974 finally won an 
       agreement (or Consent Decree) compelling the company and 
       the union to set hiring and promotion goals for women and 
       minorities. But their hard-won prosperity would be brief. 
       In a few short years the mills began shutting down and 
       hope swung to despair. The film ends with black industrial
       workers again standing on the outside of the economy, 
       waiting for new remedies to decades of discrimination. "An
       outstanding job!...Provides a vitally important historical
       foundation for the current debates about race and 
       affirmative action." - Bruce Nelson, Dartmouth College 
       "Heartbreaking and enlightening...A shameful story full of
       sound and fury." - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "Intelligent 
       and informative...The filmmakers cull revealing and often 
       deeply moving commentaries from interviews with more than 
       70 steelworkers...An effective teaching tool." - Variety. 
538    Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
650  0 Homestead Strike|vHistory|y1892|zUnited States
       |zPennsylvania. 
650  0 Steel Strike|vHistory|y1919-1920|zUnited States. 
650  0 Steel industry and trade|xIron and steel workers|vHistory
       |y20th century|zUnited States. 
650  0 African Americans|xEmployment|xDiscrimination in 
       employment|vHistory|y20th century|zUnited States. 
650  0 Labor unions|xStrikes and lockouts|xAfrican American labor
       union members|vHistory|y20th century|zUnited States. 
655  7 Documentary films.|2lcgft 
700 1  Buba, Tony |d1994-|efilm director. 
700 1  Henderson, Raymond |efilm director. 
710 2  Kanopy (Firm) 
856 40 |uhttps://naperville.kanopy.com/node/139754|zAvailable on 
       Kanopy 
856 42 |zCover Image|uhttps://www.kanopy.com/node/139754/external
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