Catalog Number: VIS 201.0527
In this interview, Milka Bamond describes her experiences as a war industries worker, referred to as a "Rosie the Riveter," during World War II. She tells of her early life, when her illiterate coal miner father died when she was only six months old and her mother moved to Detroit. She relates the start of the war and how she became a riveter. She details life in the factories and how she became physically affected by conditions there. She chronicles her post-war experiences, career, and family. She describes being part of the Rosie the Riveter Convention.