No photographer is identified in connection with this Associated Press photo of Mary Heaton Vorse, bloodied after a bullet grazed her head during the “Women’s Day Massacre” in Youngstown, Ohio, on June 19, 1937. She was there to report on the Little Steel Strike, in which workers and their wives rallied against a number of smaller steel companies to demand union recognition. That day, outside Republic Steel, the protest grew violent after police demanded the women leave the picket line, leading to a riot that resulted in two deaths and numerous injuries. “A truck of about 20 deputies came by,” Vorse said. “I can’t say exactly what happened, but apparently, the deputies were shooting at the strikers, and a bullet somehow glanced and hit me.”
