The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly: Ben Fletcher
Guest:\xa0Peter Cole\xa0is a professor of history at Western Illinois University in Macomb and a research associate in the Society, Work and Development Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.\xa0 He is the author of the award-winning\xa0Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area\xa0and\xa0Wobblies on the Waterfront: Interracial Unionism in Progressive-Era Philadelphia.\xa0 He coedited\xa0Wobblies of the World: A Global History of the IWW. He is the founder and codirector of the Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Commemoration Project.\xa0 His latest book is\xa0Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly.\nThe post The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly: Ben Fletcher appeared first on KPFA.