"We’re Not Going to Be 2nd Class Citizens in the South": the Radical, Interracial Organizing Model
Channel: Havens Wright Center for Social Justice
Date: 2022-09-27

A lecture by Toni Gilpin exploring the experience and lessons of the radical and interracial campaign of the United Farm Equipment Workers Union for equality at International Harvester's plant in Louisville, KY.

This event was co-sponsored by the UW-Madison School for Workers and the South Central Federation of Labor.

Toni Gilpin is a labor historian, writer, and activist who holds a Ph.D in American History from Yale University. She is the author of The Long Deep Grudge: A Story of Big Capital, Radical Labor, and Class War in the American Heartland (Haymarket Books, 2020) and is co-author (with Gary Isaac and Dan Letwin) of On Strike for Respect: The Clerical and Technical Workers’ Strike at Yale University, 1984-85. Her writing has been published in progressive media outlets and labor-connected journals like Jacobin and In These Times, and she was the recipient of the 2018 Debra Bernhardt Award for Labor Journalism. She contributes frequently to the labor activist magazine Labor Notes, including an ongoing series of movie reviews about films with working class content.