{"id":10,"date":"2022-11-11T19:55:54","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T19:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianmyers.info\/picketline\/?page_id=10"},"modified":"2025-06-06T21:48:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T21:48:58","slug":"edit","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/brianmyers.info\/picketline\/","title":{"rendered":"EDIT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\"><div id=\"pl-gb10-6a01fa224208b\"  class=\"panel-layout wp-block-siteorigin-panels-layout-block\" ><div id=\"pg-gb10-6a01fa224208b-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-has-style\" ><div class=\"siteorigin-panels-stretch panel-row-style panel-row-style-for-gb10-6a01fa224208b-0\" style=\"background-color: #121212; \" data-stretch-type=\"full-width-stretch\" ><div id=\"pgc-gb10-6a01fa224208b-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-gb10-6a01fa224208b-0-0-0\" class=\"widget_text so-panel widget widget_custom_html panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div class=\"widget_text panel-widget-style panel-widget-style-for-gb10-6a01fa224208b-0-0-0\" ><div class=\"textwidget custom-html-widget\"><a id=\"trailer\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/770952622?h=6e07ecd6b2&amp;title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;speed=0&amp;badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" width=\"2048\" height=\"858\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen title=\"Don&amp;#039;t Cross Our Picket Line (Concept Trailer)\"><\/iframe>\n<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pg-gb10-6a01fa224208b-1\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-has-style\" ><div class=\"siteorigin-panels-stretch panel-row-style panel-row-style-for-gb10-6a01fa224208b-1\" data-stretch-type=\"full-width-stretch\" ><div id=\"pgc-gb10-6a01fa224208b-1-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-gb10-6a01fa224208b-1-0-0\" class=\"widget_text so-panel widget widget_custom_html panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"1\" ><div class=\"textwidget custom-html-widget\"><center>\n<h1>Don&#8217;t Cross Our Picket Line: Operation Dixie and the TWUA-CIO Local 1054 Strike of American Enka<\/h1> \n\t<h2>(Working Title)<\/h2> \n<h3>\nA story from the labor movement&#8217;s failed campaign to organize the South after World War II. In the segregated and growing industrial city of East Tennessee&#8217;s Morristown, a new rayon facility employs 700 workers. They walk out on strike March 28, 1950. The documentary film reanimates the five month long strike from affidavits submitted to a congressional investigation after the Governor of Tennessee sends in the National Guard. <\/h3>\n<p>\nDon&#8217;t Cross Our Picket Line adopts a film noir aesthetic as a reflection of the time period and builds a collaboration of community performers to share the workers&#8217; tales of violence and racial injustice that US senators and labor journalists interpret as a company-state conspiracy to break the union. Through such lens, the documentary examines then new labor legislation and explores the current direction of the southern labor movement as it seeks greater democracy in the workplace.\n<\/p>\n<\/center><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pg-gb10-6a01fa224208b-2\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-has-style\" ><div class=\"siteorigin-panels-stretch panel-row-style panel-row-style-for-gb10-6a01fa224208b-2\" style=\"background-color: #000000; \" data-stretch-type=\"full-width-stretch\" ><div id=\"pgc-gb10-6a01fa224208b-2-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-gb10-6a01fa224208b-2-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-slider panel-first-child\" data-index=\"2\" ><div class=\"panel-widget-style panel-widget-style-for-gb10-6a01fa224208b-2-0-0\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-slider so-widget-sow-slider-default-6d39609536fd-10\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\t\t\t\t<div class=\"sow-slider-base\" style=\"display: none\" 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(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul>\t\t\t\t<ol class=\"sow-slider-pagination\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li><a href=\"#\" data-goto=\"0\" aria-label=\"Display slide 1\"><\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li><a href=\"#\" data-goto=\"1\" aria-label=\"Display slide 2\"><\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li><a href=\"#\" data-goto=\"2\" aria-label=\"Display slide 3\"><\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li><a href=\"#\" data-goto=\"3\" aria-label=\"Display slide 4\"><\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li><a href=\"#\" data-goto=\"4\" aria-label=\"Display slide 5\"><\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li><a href=\"#\" data-goto=\"5\" aria-label=\"Display slide 6\"><\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ol>\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"sow-slide-nav sow-slide-nav-next\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#\" data-goto=\"next\" aria-label=\"Next slide\" data-action=\"next\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<em class=\"sow-sld-icon-thin-right\"><\/em>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"sow-slide-nav sow-slide-nav-prev\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#\" data-goto=\"previous\" aria-label=\"Previous slide\" data-action=\"prev\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<em class=\"sow-sld-icon-thin-left\"><\/em>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"panel-gb10-6a01fa224208b-2-0-1\" class=\"widget_text so-panel widget widget_custom_html panel-last-child\" data-index=\"3\" ><div class=\"textwidget custom-html-widget\"><center><small>\n  Daily Gazette and Mail, March 31, 1950, p. 1. (Newspapers.com)<br \/>\t\n  Chicago Daily Tribune, May 30, 1950, p. 1. (Newspapers.com)<br \/>\t\n\tNew York Post, June 5, 1950, p. 5. (The New York Public Library)<br \/>\t\n\tThe Asheville Citizen, June 23, 1950, p. 1. (Newspapers.com)<br \/>\t\n\tCIO News, June 26, 1950, p. 8. (University of Maryland, College Park)<br \/>\t\n\tTextile Labor, July 8, 1950, p. 1. (Wisconsin Historical Society)<br \/>\n<\/small><\/center><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pg-gb10-6a01fa224208b-3\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-has-style\" ><div class=\"siteorigin-panels-stretch panel-row-style panel-row-style-for-gb10-6a01fa224208b-3\" data-stretch-type=\"full\" ><div id=\"pgc-gb10-6a01fa224208b-3-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-gb10-6a01fa224208b-3-0-0\" class=\"widget_text so-panel widget widget_custom_html panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"4\" ><div class=\"widget_text panel-widget-style panel-widget-style-for-gb10-6a01fa224208b-3-0-0\" ><div class=\"textwidget custom-html-widget\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brianmyers.info\/picketline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/bam-bw.png?w=1140&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Brian Myers, Director\" style=\"width:200px;height:214px;float:right;\">\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pgc-gb10-6a01fa224208b-3-1\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-gb10-6a01fa224208b-3-1-0\" class=\"widget_text so-panel widget widget_custom_html panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"5\" ><div class=\"widget_text panel-widget-style panel-widget-style-for-gb10-6a01fa224208b-3-1-0\" ><div class=\"textwidget custom-html-widget\"><h2>Brian Myers<\/h2>\n<h3>Producer\/Director<\/h3>\n<p>\nBrian is a nonfiction filmmaker with an MFA in Social Documentation. He examines social inequities in underrepresented working class communities through documentary, journalism and community collaboration. His work includes <a href=\"http:\/\/brianmyers.info\/kawthoolei\/\" target=\"_new\">Far From Kawthoolei (2020)<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/brianmyers.info\/land-freedom\/\" target=\"_new\">Land &#038; Freedom: Talking Food Systems<\/a> (2014) and <a href=\"http:\/\/speakcityheights.org\/\" target=\"_new\">Speak City Heights (2011-2018)<\/a>. Contact: myersbam(A)gmail.com\n<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pg-gb10-6a01fa224208b-4\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-has-style\" ><div class=\"siteorigin-panels-stretch panel-row-style panel-row-style-for-gb10-6a01fa224208b-4\" data-stretch-type=\"full\" ><div id=\"pgc-gb10-6a01fa224208b-4-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-gb10-6a01fa224208b-4-0-0\" class=\"widget_text so-panel widget widget_custom_html panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"6\" ><div class=\"textwidget custom-html-widget\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brianmyers.info\/picketline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/jb-bw.png?w=1140&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Jennifer E. Brooks, Advisor\" style=\"width:200px;height:214px;float:right;\">\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pgc-gb10-6a01fa224208b-4-1\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-gb10-6a01fa224208b-4-1-0\" class=\"widget_text so-panel widget widget_custom_html panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"7\" ><div class=\"widget_text panel-widget-style panel-widget-style-for-gb10-6a01fa224208b-4-1-0\" ><div class=\"textwidget custom-html-widget\"><h2>Jennifer E. Brooks<\/h2>\n<h3>Advisor<\/h3>\n<small>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/cla.auburn.edu\/directory\/jennifer-brooks\/\" target=\"_new\">Jennifer Brooks<\/a> is a native of Knoxville, Tennessee, received her Ph.D in History from the University of Tennessee, and currently is Professor of History and the Director of Graduate Studies in History at Auburn University. Her first book is <a href=\"https:\/\/uncpress.org\/book\/9780807855782\/defining-the-peace\/\" target=\"_new\">Defining the Peace: World War Two Veterans, Race, and the Remaking of Southern Political Tradition (University of North Carolina Press, 2004)<\/a>. Her second book is <a href=\"https:\/\/lsupress.org\/books\/detail\/resident-strangers\/\" target=\"_new\">Resident Strangers: Immigrant Laborers in New South Alabama (Louisiana State University Press, 2022)<\/a>. Other work has appeared in the Journal of Southern History, <a href=\"https:\/\/read.dukeupress.edu\/labor\/search-results?f_Authors=Jennifer+Brooks\" target=\"_new\">Labor: Studies in Working Class History<\/a>, Journal of American Ethnic History, and Southern Cultures. She is a past president of the <a href=\"https:\/\/southernlaborstudies.org\/\" target=\"_new\">Southern Labor Studies Association<\/a> and currently is working on Striking Out: A Graphic History of Southern Labor in the Cold War, a narrative that tells the American Enka story through original photographs, interviews, and documents.\n<\/small><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pg-gb10-6a01fa224208b-5\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-has-style\" ><div class=\"siteorigin-panels-stretch panel-row-style panel-row-style-for-gb10-6a01fa224208b-5\" data-stretch-type=\"full\" ><div id=\"pgc-gb10-6a01fa224208b-5-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-gb10-6a01fa224208b-5-0-0\" class=\"widget_text so-panel widget widget_custom_html panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"8\" ><div class=\"textwidget custom-html-widget\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brianmyers.info\/picketline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/dpc-bw.png?w=1140&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Danielle Phillips-Cunningham, Advisor\" style=\"width:200px;height:214px;float:right;\">\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pgc-gb10-6a01fa224208b-5-1\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-gb10-6a01fa224208b-5-1-0\" class=\"widget_text so-panel widget widget_custom_html panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"9\" ><div class=\"widget_text panel-widget-style panel-widget-style-for-gb10-6a01fa224208b-5-1-0\" ><div class=\"textwidget custom-html-widget\"><h2>Danielle Phillips-Cunningham<\/h2>\n<h3>Advisor<\/h3>\n<small>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.daniellephillips-cunningham.com\/\" target=\"_new\">Dr. Danielle Phillips-Cunningham<\/a> is an associate professor of <a href=\"https:\/\/smlr.rutgers.edu\/about-smlr\/faculty-and-staff-directory\/danielle-phillips-cunningham\" target=\"_new\">Labor Studies and Employment Relations at Rutgers University<\/a> where she teaches courses about race, gender, and labor histories. She is the author of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rutgersuniversitypress.org\/putting-their-hands-on-race\/9781978800465\/\" target=\"_new\">Putting Their Hands on Race: Irish Immigrant and Southern Black Domestic Workers<\/a> and recipient of the National Women\u2019s Studies Association\u2019s Sara A. Whaley Book Prize for outstanding monographs on women\u2019s labor history. Phillips-Cunningham\u2019s forthcoming book \u201cA Tower of Strength in the Labor World\u201d: Nannie Helen Burroughs and her National Training School for Women and Girls is under contract with Georgetown University Press. Phillips-Cunningham\u2019s book is supported by the African American Intellectual History Society\u2019s C.L.R. James Fellowship, American Philosophical Society\u2019s Franklin Research Grant, and Texas Woman\u2019s University\u2019s Creative Arts and Humanities Program. Phillips-Cunningham is a co-principal investigator of <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/twu.edu\/quakertownstories\/\" target=\"_new\">Quakertown Stories<\/a>, an African American public history and curriculum project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. As a fellow of the OpEd Project\u2019s Public Voices of the South, Phillips-Cunningham has written op-eds about African American women\u2019s labor organizing history. \n<\/small><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pg-gb10-6a01fa224208b-6\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-has-style\" ><div class=\"siteorigin-panels-stretch panel-row-style panel-row-style-for-gb10-6a01fa224208b-6\" data-stretch-type=\"full\" ><div id=\"pgc-gb10-6a01fa224208b-6-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-gb10-6a01fa224208b-6-0-0\" class=\"widget_text so-panel widget widget_custom_html panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"10\" ><div class=\"textwidget custom-html-widget\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brianmyers.info\/picketline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/js-bw.png?w=1140&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Jon Shefner, Advisor\" style=\"width:200px;height:214px;float:right;\">\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pgc-gb10-6a01fa224208b-6-1\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-gb10-6a01fa224208b-6-1-0\" class=\"widget_text so-panel widget widget_custom_html panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"11\" ><div class=\"widget_text panel-widget-style panel-widget-style-for-gb10-6a01fa224208b-6-1-0\" ><div class=\"textwidget custom-html-widget\"><h2>Jon Shefner<\/h2>\n<h3>Advisor<\/h3>\n<small>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.utk.edu\/Jon.Shefner\/\" target=\"_new\">Jon Shefner<\/a> is Professor and former Department Head in the Department of Sociology at the University of Tennessee \u2013 Knoxville. He has researched and written about social movement and labor organizing, immigration, globalization and austerity, and civil society. His books include <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psupress.org\/books\/titles\/978-0-271-03384-6.html\" target=\"_new\">The Illusion of Civil Society: Democratization and Community Mobilization in Low Income Mexico<\/a> (Penn State University Press, 2008), <a href=\"https:\/\/utpress.org\/title\/global-connections-and-local-receptions\/\" target=\"_new\">Global Connections and Local Receptions: New Latino Immigration to the Southeastern US<\/a> (University of Tennessee Press, 2009, edited with Fran Ansley); and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politybooks.com\/bookdetail?book_slug=why-austerity-persists--9781509509867\" target=\"_new\">Why Austerity Persists<\/a> (2019, Polity Press with Cory Blad). He has done fieldwork and worked collaboratively with movements, labor, and community organizations in Mexico, Ecuador, New Orleans, LA, and Knoxville, TN. His current research examines movements and organizations across the US South to determine what kinds of organizing tactics work best in which contexts. Throughout his scholarly career he simultaneously worked as organizer and leader in a variety of progressive movements and organizations.\n<\/small><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pg-gb10-6a01fa224208b-7\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-has-style\" ><div class=\"siteorigin-panels-stretch panel-row-style panel-row-style-for-gb10-6a01fa224208b-7\" data-stretch-type=\"full\" ><div id=\"pgc-gb10-6a01fa224208b-7-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-gb10-6a01fa224208b-7-0-0\" class=\"widget_text so-panel widget widget_custom_html panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"12\" ><div class=\"textwidget custom-html-widget\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brianmyers.info\/picketline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/blank.png?w=1140&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"T.R.C. Hutton, Advisor\" style=\"width:200px;height:214px;float:right;\">\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pgc-gb10-6a01fa224208b-7-1\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-gb10-6a01fa224208b-7-1-0\" class=\"widget_text so-panel widget widget_custom_html panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"13\" ><div class=\"widget_text panel-widget-style panel-widget-style-for-gb10-6a01fa224208b-7-1-0\" ><div class=\"textwidget custom-html-widget\"><h2>T.R.C. Hutton<\/h2>\n<h3>Advisor<\/h3>\n<small>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.glenville.edu\/directory\/bob-hutton\" target=\"_new\">T.R.C. Hutton<\/a> (PhD, Vanderbilt 2009) is an associate professor of history and Appalachian studies at Glenville State University in Gilmer County, WV. He is the author of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/utpress.org\/title\/bearing-the-torch\/\" target=\"_new\">Bearing the Torch: A History of the University of Tennessee, 1794-2010<\/a>\u00a0(2022) and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kentuckypress.com\/9780813161242\/bloody-breathitt\/\" target=\"_new\">Bloody Breathitt: Politics &#038; Violence in the Appalachian South<\/a>\u00a0(2013), and he is currently working on a book about the mine guard system in Appalachia. His essays have appeared in\u00a0Jacobin,\u00a0Tribune Magazine\u00a0(UK), and the US Intellectual History blog.\n<\/small><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pg-gb10-6a01fa224208b-8\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-has-style\" ><div class=\"siteorigin-panels-stretch panel-row-style panel-row-style-for-gb10-6a01fa224208b-8\" style=\"background-color: #0a0a0a; \" data-stretch-type=\"full-width-stretch\" ><div id=\"pgc-gb10-6a01fa224208b-8-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-gb10-6a01fa224208b-8-0-0\" class=\"widget_text so-panel widget widget_custom_html panel-first-child\" data-index=\"14\" ><div class=\"textwidget custom-html-widget\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/727139924?h=8242960b12&amp;title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;speed=0&amp;badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen title=\"American Enka (Aerial); June 24, 2022\"><\/iframe>\n<br>\n<center><p>\n\tThe industrial ruins of American Enka Corporation, Lowland, Morristown, TN (2022)\n<\/p><\/center><\/div><\/div><div id=\"panel-gb10-6a01fa224208b-8-0-1\" class=\"widget_text so-panel widget widget_custom_html panel-last-child\" data-index=\"15\" ><div class=\"textwidget custom-html-widget\"><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/labor-management-relations-american-enka-corp\" width=\"625\" height=\"1030\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"false\" mozallowfullscreen=\"false\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\t<\/center>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pg-gb10-6a01fa224208b-9\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-has-style\" ><div class=\"siteorigin-panels-stretch panel-row-style panel-row-style-for-gb10-6a01fa224208b-9\" style=\"background-color: #f1f1f1; \" data-stretch-type=\"full-width-stretch\" ><div id=\"pgc-gb10-6a01fa224208b-9-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-gb10-6a01fa224208b-9-0-0\" class=\"widget_text so-panel widget widget_custom_html panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"16\" ><div class=\"widget_text panel-widget-style panel-widget-style-for-gb10-6a01fa224208b-9-0-0\" ><div class=\"textwidget custom-html-widget\"><p>\n<center>\nThis project was supported by the <a href=\"https:\/\/itvs.org\/blog\/announcing-the-humanities-documentary-development-fellows-2022\" target=\"new\">ITVS Humanities Documentary Development Fellowship<\/a> with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) through the American Rescue Plan (ARP). Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this film do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/itvs.org\/blog\/announcing-the-humanities-documentary-development-fellows-2022\" target=\"new\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brianmyers.info\/picketline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/ITVS_Logo_Black-Red_RGB_R_transparent.png?resize=234%2C100&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"ITVS\" width=\"234\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>\n<br \/><br \/>\nFunding has been made possible by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.puffinfoundation.org\/\" target=\"new\">The Puffin Foundation, Ltd<\/a>.\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.puffinfoundation.org\/\" target=\"new\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brianmyers.info\/picketline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Puffin_Logo_Vector_2024.png?resize=72%2C100&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Puffin Foundation, Ltd\" width=\"72\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>\n<br \/><br \/>\nFiscally sponsored by <a href=\"https:\/\/southerndocumentaryfund.org\/dont-cross-our-picket-line\/\" target=\"new\">Southern Documentary Fund<\/a>.\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/southerndocumentaryfund.org\/dont-cross-our-picket-line\/\" target=\"new\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brianmyers.info\/picketline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2020_SDF_logoBlack_Horizontal.png?resize=262%2C100&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Southern Documentary Fund\" width=\"262\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>\n<\/center>\n<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page_front-page.php","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianmyers.info\/picketline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianmyers.info\/picketline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianmyers.info\/picketline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianmyers.info\/picketline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianmyers.info\/picketline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brianmyers.info\/picketline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189,"href":"https:\/\/brianmyers.info\/picketline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions\/189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianmyers.info\/picketline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}