A story from the labor movement’s failed campaign to organize the South after World War II. In the segregated and growing industrial city of East Tennessee’s Morristown, a new rayon facility employs 700 workers who walk out on strike March 28, 1950.

Director | Brian Myers

Website | BrianMyers.info/picketline/

Twitter | Twitter.com/myersbam

DON’T CROSS OUR PICKET LINE: OPERATION DIXIE AND THE TWUA-CIO LOCAL 1054 STRIKE OF AMERICAN ENKA (Working Title)

A story from the labor movement’s failed campaign to organize the South after World War II. In the segregated and growing industrial city of East Tennessee’s Morristown, a new rayon facility employs 700 workers who walk out on strike March 28, 1950.

Director | Brian Myers

Website | BrianMyers.info/picketline/

Twitter | Twitter.com/myersbam

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