http://www.denison.edu/theden/2012/03/an-inside-look-at-history/ Denison University news, stories, & ideas Fri, 03 May 2013 15:05:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 http://www.denison.edu/theden/2012/03/an-inside-look-at-history/comment-page-1/#comment-534 Chris Campbell '69 Mon, 16 Apr 2012 01:50:40 +0000 http://www.denison.edu/theden/?p=12936#comment-534 After graduating and navigating VISTA service, graduate school, and law school, I landed in Lansing, MI. Pretty soon I signed up for a labor history course offered by the community college and a big UAW Local union. One evening we watched a 16 mm film (ticketa-ticketa-ticketa) about the 1937 GM sit-down strikes. The film contained footage shot at the Fisher Body plant in Lansing, about three blocks from my house and from a big high school. At the end the lights came up and a community college student, a young recent high school graduate, was astonished. "My school was three blocks from there. THEY NEVER TOLD US ABOUT THAT!!!!" You'd think that labor activism wouldn't be a subject of shame and suppression in a union town like Lansing, but even that bit of history was politely ignored. After graduating and navigating VISTA service, graduate school, and law school, I landed in Lansing, MI. Pretty soon I signed up for a labor history course offered by the community college and a big UAW Local union. One evening we watched a 16 mm film (ticketa-ticketa-ticketa) about the 1937 GM sit-down strikes. The film contained footage shot at the Fisher Body plant in Lansing, about three blocks from my house and from a big high school. At the end the lights came up and a community college student, a young recent high school graduate, was astonished. “My school was three blocks from there. THEY NEVER TOLD US ABOUT THAT!!!!” You’d think that labor activism wouldn’t be a subject of shame and suppression in a union town like Lansing, but even that bit of history was politely ignored.

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