LaborArts.org has images to expand your experience of our films

Thanks to the wonderful folks at LaborArts.org, the labor movement's vitally important online repository of images from all eras of labor and worker history, Workers Unite Film Festival is able to offer our viewers the ability to dig deeper. We invite you to explore one of our festival's main themes – Civil Rights – through some remarkable historic images in the online exhibits featured below. We are developing our partnership with LaborArts toward a real searchable resource for filmmakers, students, educators, workers and labor union organizers, not to mention anybody else who is interested in finding out more about these incredible, under-reported historical events.

Many thanks to Evelyn Jones Rich and Rachel Bernstein, co-founders and directors of LaborArts and its online museum, and huge thanks to Donald and Shelley Rubin and The Rubin Foundation, for their ongoing support and guidance to both LaborArts and our own Workers Unite Film Festival.

A sampling of materials from the Congress ofRacial Equality (CORE), part of Marvin Rich’scollection from his time as a civil rights activist.Learn more — A sampling of materials from the Congress of
Racial Equality (CORE), part of Marvin Rich’s
collection from his time as a civil rights activist.
**Learn more**

Acclaimed singer and civil rights leader PaulRobeson spent a lifetime fighting racialdiscrimination, and he developed a deepconnection to the National Maritime Union’sfight to integrate America’s ships. Listen torecordings of some of his songs, and … — Acclaimed singer and civil rights leader Paul
Robeson spent a lifetime fighting racial
discrimination, and he developed a deep
connection to the National Maritime Union’s
fight to integrate America’s ships. Listen to
recordings of some of his songs, and a story
about his experiences aboard one ship.
**Learn More**

Artwork played a key role in the magazineW.E.B. Du Bois founded in 1910. Unlike images ofAfrican Americans in other magazines, thevisuals published here were generated froma black perspective – tied to political andsocial issues of the day, yet refl… — Artwork played a key role in the magazine
W.E.B. Du Bois founded in 1910. Unlike images of
African Americans in other magazines, the
visuals published here were generated from
a black perspective – tied to political and
social issues of the day, yet reflecting Du
Bois’ attempt to help build a collective
memory for black people beyond that shaped
by the white-dominated culture they lived
within. **Learn More**

Featuring art by Marshall Arisman,Nina Talbot, Audrey Flack, andothers. Learn More — Featuring art by Marshall Arisman,
Nina Talbot, Audrey Flack, and
others. **Learn More**

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The Workers Unite Film Festival is a ten day long celebration in NYC of films from around the world about worker's lives and their struggles for dignity and labor rights. The festival is held the second week in May each year at the historic Cinema Village, just South of Union Square in Manhattan. New locations are added each season.

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