February 27, 1946
James Oppenheim’s poem “Bread & Roses” was published in Industrial Workers of the World’s (IWW) Industrial Solidarity. It was set to music and became an anthem of the labor and women’s movements, sung here by Joan Baez and her sister Mimi Fariña. As we come marching, marching, we battle too for men, For they are women’s children, and we mother them again. Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life closes; Hearts starve as well as bodies; give us bread, but give us roses!
