Rosie the Riveter

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  12/8/2020
  

  Rosie the Riveter Gets Her Due 75 Years After the End of World War II

  This month, women war industry workers from the World War II era were collectively awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, an honor a dwindling number have survived to enjoy. 

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• 2/25/18
  

  Along with Rosie the Riveter You Should Think of This When You Conjure Up the Home Front in World War II

  by Stephanie Hinnershitz

  Incarcerated Japanese Americans working on factory lines in the war effort.

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  1-23-18
  

  Everyone Was Wrong About the Real 'Rosie the Riveter’ for Decades

  Here’s how the mystery was solved.

• SOURCE: Indianapolis Star
  7-29-13
  

  Detroit-area plant where Rosie the Riveter worked facing demolition

  YPSILANTI TOWNSHIP, MICH.—The Detroit-area factory where Rosie the Riveter showed that a woman could do a “man’s work” by building Second World War-era bombers, making her an enduring symbol of American female empowerment, will be demolished if money can’t be found to save it.The Willow Run Bomber Plant, a 135-hectare former Ford Motor Co. factory west of Detroit that churned out nearly 9,000 B-24 Liberator bombers during the Second World War, is slated to be torn down unless a group can raise $3.5 million by Thursday to convert at least some of the structure into a new, expanded home for the nearby Yankee Air Museum.“The younger generation needs to know what people went through and be able to go and see what they did and how they did it for our country,” Larry Doe, a 70-year-old Ypsilanti Township resident who has given to the cause, said recently before joining other donors for a trip on a B-17....