Interview with Mike Ruetenbar-Former GM Fisher Body plant worker
Information-
- -After 90 days a worker became a union member
- 20% of workers had to be a minority under union policy
- Detroit Northwestern HS. (where he attended) 1972-65% african american students, 1978-90% AA students
- 90% of his friends parents worked at/for an automobile related company
- In 1977 the pay per hour was $7.50 for union members
- North end along with east side was majority all White
- Central part of city was all Black
- Bars were located across the street from the factories
- Black workers would carpool with other blacks/ white with whites
- Blacks and whites would work side by side and there was rarely racial tension.
- Whites an blacks played on different bowling teams, were members of different lodges, and attended different churches.
- At school most white kids played sports with other white kids and blacks played with other blacks
- The two races came together under the union. They both benefited under new contracts so there was never any ill feelings towards one another in contract negotiations.
I think it is great that you actually got to interview someone who directly relates to your topic! Due to the fact that my information is mostly coming from the 1800s, a personal interview is some what difficult :)
ReplyDeleteThis looks like a ton of great information! Does it coincide with other information in your research? The reason I ask is because I did journalism all throughout high school and some college, and I always backed my interview facts up with other interview or another source. Sometimes people don't get information correct when recalling it from memories. This point was made kind of in class today but just thought I would throw it out there.
ReplyDeletehey i actually found those political cartoons just doing searches on google and google images!
ReplyDeleteAlright thanks for the comments yall.
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