RADIUM GIRLS

As the First World War spread across the world, young American women flocked to work in factories, painting clocks, watches, and military dials with a special luminous substance: radium. The girls shone brightly in the dark, covered head to toe in dust from the paint. However, as the years passed, the women began to suffer from mysterious and crippling illnesses. Their employers denied all responsibility, but the women refused to accept their fate quietly, and instead became determined to fight for justice. Drawing on previously unpublished diaries, letters and interviews, this is an intimate narrative of an unforgettable true story. It is the powerful tale of a group of ordinary women from the Roaring Twenties, who themselves learned how to roar.