The mural is located on the Delaware River waterfront where Fletcher fought not just for wages but for fairness and…
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Black Labor Leader Ben Fletcher Honored with New Mural
By Keshler Thibert Hidden City May 16th, 2024 The new Ben Fletcher mural at 301 S. Columbus Boulevard will be…
Ben Fletcher and IWW Dockworkers- Interview with Dr. Peter Cole on Labor Jawn
By Labor Jawn In this interview episode, Sam and Gabe sit down with Dr. Peter Cole, author of “Ben Fletcher:…
Ben Fletcher + the IWW w/ Peter Cole
By Africa World Now Report The IWW was born in 1905. On January 2, 1905, several dozen people identifying as…
Double podcast episode about Ben Fletcher—on Working Class History
By Working Class History Double podcast episode about Ben Fletcher, a very important but little-known dock worker and labour organiser…
The Labor Movement Must Learn How to Exploit “Choke Points”
By Peter Cole Jacobin An interview with Peter Olney US labor union density is at historic lows, and multinational corporations…
Ben Fletcher, an intrepid labor organizer and activist
By Herb Boyd Amsterdam News February 16th, 2023 Many years ago when this column launched, one of the first profiles…
Fighting Racism & the Bosses
By Robert Ovetz Fifth Estate # 410, Fall, 2021 One of the hardest tasks for an historian of the working…
This Day in History: May 14, 1913: Longshore Strike in Philadelphia
By Zinn Education Project Time Periods: World War I: 1910 – 1919 Themes: Labor, Organizing, Social Class On May 14,…
Peter Cole talking about Ben Fletcher on The New Books Podcast
By Adam McNeil New Books Network In the early twentieth century, when many US unions disgracefully excluded black and Asian…