Minneapolis Truckers Make History
  • Home
    • Contact Us
    • Thank You
  • Teacher Resources
    • Using This Site
    • Classroom Activities & Curriculum >
      • Activities
      • Speakers
      • Field Trips
      • Music & Art
      • Voices of the Strikes
      • Teaching Labor
      • Photos
    • Film Questions,Vocabulary, & Role Play >
      • Film Questions
      • Key Vocabulary
      • Directions for Role Play Exercise
    • History Day >
      • Labor Review
      • Key Individuals
      • Past Projects
    • Only Have One Class Period? >
      • Introductory Exercise
      • Key Vocabulary
      • Film Questions
    • Handouts (PDFs)
  • Learn More About the Strikes
    • 1934 Online
    • Strike Timeline
    • Elsewhere in '34
    • Books
    • 7 Snippets: A Zine
    • Essay: Dave Riehle
    • Essay: Harry DeBoer
    • Essay: Iric Nathanson
  • People in the Mpls Strikes
    • Key Individuals
    • Role of Women
    • The Auxiliary
    • Native Americans
    • Voices of the Strikes
  • Unions 101
    • U.S. Labor History
    • MN Labor History
    • Teaching Labor
    • FAQ
  • Search

San Francisco General Strike


  • Extensive collection of photos from the San Francisco General Strike. 
  • Comprehensive site with history, multimedia exhibits, documents and other resources on the San Francisco General Strike.
  • Waterfront Workers History project, includes online films, oral history interviews and slideshows.
  • Links, a bibliography, and sheet music to the 1937 song ‘Frisco Strike Saga’.
  • The Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco’s site about the strike. Features the San Francisco News’ coverage from the first day of the rioting.
  • From the September 1934 edition of Survey Graphic Magazine.
  • Photos of the San Franscisco General Strike.
  • Video filmed at the 75th anniversary commemoration of the San Francisco General Strike and "Bloody Thursday."
  • The Big Strike : A Journalist Describes the 1934 San Francisco Strike (Mike Quin’s original reporting from 1934)

Toledo Auto Lite Strike of 1934

  • Information about the WBGU (PBS) documentary made about the Toledo strike and a link to order the video.
  • Information about the book, Not Automatic : Women and the Left in Forging the Auto Workers’ Union (contains a chapter on the Auto Lite strike)
  • Video that includes original footage of the National Guard fighting with strikers in Toledo.
  • While wikipedia pages are not generally recommended to students, this page is useful for its bibliographic records, including reference to I Remember Like Today : The Auto-Lite Strike of 1934 by Philip A. Korth and Margaret Beagle, Michigan State University Press: East Lansing, MI, 1988. Like Korth’s book about the Minneapolis strikes, this volume contains first person interviews with people who were active in the strike.


1934 Textile Strikes

  • PBS information about the film, "Uprising of '34" about the 1934 textile strikes in the South. 
  • Program Guide for the film "Uprising of '34"
  • PDF Lesson Plan on the strike, designed to accompany The "Uprising of '34" film.
  • ERIC record for the lesson plan "Using the Uprising of ’34" to Link the Classroom to the Community.
  • North Carolina History Project’s information on the 1934 Textile Strikes
  • Treated Like Slaves : Textile Workers Write to Washington in the 1930s and 1940s. Full text of letters.
Minneapolis Truckers Make History