Louisville Courier-Journal: Kentucky's Ermon Harp made history in Detroit's UAW sit-down strikes: Opinion
Berry Craig
By BERRY CRAIG
In 1922, Ermon Harp left her native Carlisle County, Kentucky, looking for work, not for a place in history.
The western Kentuckian found both in Detroit, where she joined one of the country’s first-sit down strikes. It was March 1937, 50 years before Congress established March as Women’s History Month.
“They called us Communists — and just about everything else you could think of,” she told me. “But it didn’t bother me a particle. We were the United Auto Workers, and we felt like we were doing right.”