In 1938, 600 crab pickers struck for higher wages and a union in Crisfield, Maryland; on today’s show, an audio postcard from the May 10 dedication of an official state historical marker commemorating the strike.
Then, we talk with historian Peter Cole, author of Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly, whose work inspired the new Ben Fletcher mural being dedicated on May 18 in Philadelphia.
Our “Story Behind the Song” feature returns today with Emily Jo Tanzey, one of our 2023 Great Labor Arts Exchange song contest winners; today she tells us the story behind her song “Solidarity is the Only Thing We Need.”
And, on Labor History in Two: The year was 1913; that was the day Philadelphia longshoremen walked off the job.
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Favorite labor songs
“The Black Wobbly” gets a mural
Mother Jones, Russell Lee & Solidarity Forever
“We Mean to Make Things Over”
LIVE from the Great Labor Arts Exchange!
The Return of John Brown
Labor FilmFest, union photos, Coal Mining Woman
Making room for solidarity
Changing Lives, Changing L.A.
Our labor sheroes
The Labor Oscar winners!
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SAG’s laborific shows; the Black Wobbly
American Fiction’s Cord Jefferson
Black, Red, White and Blue
JFK's Last Words to Labor
Vermont’s Old Labor Hall
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