Ford Strikers Riot

The man was a strikebreaker and the photo shows him being beaten by striking United Auto Workers (UAW) strikers.

The image was taken in Dearborn, Michigan at the Rouge Plant of the Ford Motor Company during a worker strike action on April 3, 1941.

[5] The image shows United Auto Workers (UAW) strikers beating a strikebreaker[6] with his coat pulled over his head.

[5] The Times of Shreveport, Louisiana described the scene by saying, "strikers rain blows on a man who shields himself with his coat in an early morning outbreak of hostilities".

[7] The image won the first Pulitzer Prize for Photography in 1942,[6][3] juried by Herbert Brucker, Richard F. Crandell, and Roscoe B.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph was taken on April 3, 1941.