The Willmar 8 / produced by Mary Beth Yarrow, Julie Thompson ; directed by Lee Grant ; narration written by Lee Grant ; a G.T.Y. production.

San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, 1980.

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The Willmar 8 is Academy Award winner Lee Grant's documentary about working women which has been featured on the front page of The Wall Street Journal, excerpted on 60 Minutes, and was broadcast nationally by PBS. The film tells the story of eight unassuming, apolitical women in America's heartland--Willmar, Minnesota--who were driven by sex discrimination at work to take the most unexpected step of their lives and found themselves in the forefront of the struggle for women's rights. Risking jobs, friends, family and the opposition of church and community, they began the longest bank strike in American history in a dramatic attempt to assert their own equality and self-worth.

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November 15, 2019