Events
Dec 2020
9
6:30 PM
The life and times of a Black Wobbly: Ben Fletcher
Online/Phone Only United StatesYou are invited to the Claudia Jones School's next event, "The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly: Ben Fletcher." Peter Cole, professor of history at Western Illinois University and author of Wobblies on the Waterfront, will speak about Ben Fletcher, an African American who helped lead the IWW’s most militant and effective interracial […]
Nov 2020
30
6:30 PM
The legacy of Jack O’Dell in the Black freedom movement
Online/Phone Only United StatesThe Claudia Jones School for Political Education invites you to their next event, The Legacy of Jack O'Dell in the Black Freedom Movement. Born Hunter Pitts O'Dell in Detroit in 1923, he went on to be a militant labor organizer in the National Maritime Union, an activist in the Southern Negro Youth Congress, and […]