Wildcat at Mead (sound)

Description: Documentary about the 1972 wildcat strike of predominantly Black workers at Mead Packaging in Atlanta, Georgia.

See interferencearchive.org/wildcat-at-mead/ (accessed September 18, 2023).

solidarity-us.org/p3135/ (accessed September 18, 2023).

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_(Marxist%E2%80%93Leninist)_(United_States)ss (accessed September 18, 2023).

October Films, the producer, was associated with the October League.

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Subjects: 1970s, Labor unions, Labor, People of African origin or descent, Black history and culture , Racism--Resistance to , Music

Tags: Black people; Black workers; African American people; working conditions; communist organizations; wildcat strikes; workers rights; unfair working conditions; employee benefits; pensions; insurance; temperature control; racist foremen; women's labor; Black women workers; strike chants; workers singing Which Side Are You On; We Shall Overcome; protest songs; white allies; solidarity; workers marching; Atlanta police vans; strike tactics; police; arrests; shot on video; racial discrimination; picket lines; radicalism of the 1960s and 1970s; female narrator; on-camera interviews; October League; Sherman Miller; Wayne Draznin; video source footage; shot on video; worker safety

Film Sponsor:

Creator: October Films

Credits:

Distributor:

Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Prelinger Archives

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date: 1972

Release Date:

Geographical Location: USA; Georgia; Atlanta, Georgia

Genre/Form: activist, nonfiction

Language: eng

Rights:

Film Format: 16mm film

Element: release print, kinescope

Color: b&w

Color Process:

Sound or Silent: sound

Film Soundtrack Type: variable area

Edge Code: square plus

Frame Rate: 24 fps

Length (feet): 1800