Beginning in January 1987, union leaders and supporters prepared for the fiftieth anniversary of the Flint Sitdown Strike by gathering the memories of participants in the 1936-37 strike, interviewing about 80 couples at Black Lake, and deciding after a large Labor Day celebration to create a permanent remembrance of the event. In 1988 the former Education Committee became the nucleus of the Labor Museum Board of Directors, and Ruben Burks, Bettye Cunningham, the board, UAW members, other labor organizations, businesses, community groups, and Mott Community College worked toward a permanent facility. Their efforts led to the opening of the Labor Museum and Learning Center of Michigan in 1992, dedicated to telling the story of the Flint Sitdowners and the Women's Emergency Brigade. After the museum building was sold and its exhibits had to be dismantled, a new effort began, and after Bob Roth was elected director in 2002 he pursued creation of a park portraying a scene from the strike. With Bettye Cunningham he formed the Sitdowners Memorial Committee, the grounds were landscaped and lit, and on Labor Day, September 1, 2003, a life-size monument was unveiled in Sitdowners Park. The project continued with the nearby street renamed Sitdowners Drive in 2004, the Sitdowners Park Arch unveiled the following Labor Day after Duane Zuckschwerdt was elected director in 2006, an interactive Sit Down Strike exhibit opened at the Sloan Museum in 2007 with grant support secured through Congressman Dale Kildee, and Region 1-C's auditorium was transformed in 2008 to display strike artifacts and student artwork. Realizing the park lacked recognition of women's roles, Zuckschwerdt and Cunningham planned a tribute to the Women's Auxiliary and Women's Emergency Brigade, and on Labor Day 2009 sculptures of their actions during the 44-day strike were erected before an original window from Fisher Body #1, along with a granite fountain and markers honoring women's social contributions. Through the work of Stan Marshall, Ruben Burks, Cal Rapson, Duane Zuckschwerdt, Bob Roth, Bettye Cunningham, and thousands of union, community, and company supporters, Flint created a lasting tribute to ordinary people who changed the world.