The story of Willow Run is incomplete without the story of the United Auto Workers and the Congress of Industrial Organizations (UAW-CIO). Against the backdrop of a war-time social crisis of racial discrimination, gender inequality, housing shortages, migrations and exploitation, the UAW-CIO sought to bring a coalition of people previously excluded from a having a say over their lives to political power. Join historian Matt Siegfried as we discuss how the UAW-CIO came to Washtenaw at the end of the Great Depression and transformed the social landscape of Ypsilanti, bettering the lives of tens of thousands during World War Two and after. Free and open to all.