Life and Times of a Black Wobbly & Strike the Hammer

Broadcast on February 17, 2021
Hosted by Chris Garlock and Ed Smith

This week's show:
Special Black Labor History Month show: Peter Cole on “Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly” (2nd Edition) and Dr. Laura Warren Hill on “Strike the Hammer: The Black Freedom Struggle in Rochester, New York, 1940-1970” (March 2021).
Peter Cole is Professor of History at Western Illinois University in Macomb, Illinois; Laura Warren Hill is Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies, Bloomfield College in Bloomfield, New Jersey.
Music: The Preacher And The Slave (Pie in the Sky): Mischief Brew

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Produced by Chris Garlock; engineered by Kahlia Chapman.

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