On this day, 27 February 1937, the victorious Woolworth’s sitdown strike of women workers in Detroit began. 150 women occupied their workplace and won improved pay and conditions, but more importantly helped galvanise the militant workers’ movement sweeping the country at the time.
This is a short history of the dispute: https://libcom.org/history/detroit-woolworths-sitdown-strike-1937-marc-norton https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1360621377456342/?type=3