Thursday, May 26, 2022
Thursday, May 26 at 6:00 pm
Join us to watch Emmy Award winning fi lmmaker Jonathan Silver’s Red Metal documentary. This fi lm focuses on the 100th anniversary of an epic labor strike that devastated Michigan’s Upper Peninsula Copper Country and haunts the American labor movement to this day. Among the notable elements of that strike was the death of 73 children at a union Christmas party in what is now Calumet. Known as the Italian Hall Disaster, it remains the deadliest unsolved manslaughter in U.S. history. The fi lm was the catalyst that led author, Maria Doria Russell to write The Women of the Copper Country and is an important foundation for our study.
Location:
Birmingham Next