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Salt of the Earth : The Picket Line

Esperanza (Rosaura Revueltas) describes how women got involved in the picket line that the miners formed to protest their working conditions.

The Picket Line

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close-up, dissolve, exterior, framing, handheld camera, high angle, medium close-up, medium shot, monologue, montage, music, empathetic, overhead shot, pan, voiceover narration

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LGBTQ: Cisgender Female, LGBTQ: Heterosexual Woman, Latinx: Mestizo

"The Picket Line" in Salt of the Earth. Directed by Herbert J. Biberman, Intl Union of Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers, 1954, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=2489

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