During the Flint Sit-Down Strike, workers' wives, girlfriends, and mothers supported the strikers despite not knowing what would happen. After a street dance on December 31, 1936, in front of the Fisher Body Plant #2 on Chevrolet Avenue, they formed the Women's Emergency Brigade. Led by Genora Johnson, the 23-year-old wife of a Chevrolet strike leader, the group picketed, staffed a first aid station, and created a nursery to care for children while their parents protested. Over the 44-day strike, more than 350 women joined the brigade.