Thanks for the memory jog, AIW.
Ad 20 years later, we were loading my pickup with the demo bricks to pave my mom’s back sidewalk.
Yup, before that strike Kelsey-Hayes had 4 plants and almost 3,000 employees. A couple years after they were down to a few hundred.
If you add up all the employees in the well paying factories that were in and around Jackson it is far more than the entire population of the city!