“We Want Bread, Not Crumbs” – The Detroit Hunger March of 1932: A Tragedy in a Longer Struggle
On March 7, 1932, an explosive confrontation took place when at least 3,000 Ford workers and unemployed members of the Detroit area working class began a march on Henry Ford’s massive River Rouge plant in next-door Dearborn, Michigan. As the march unfolded, the violence of the capitalist system was unmasked as police and hired thugs […]