Race and Resistance Studies Speaker Series: Dockworker Power - Race and Activism in South Africa and the San Francisco Bay Area

Peter Cole discusses his new book, Dockworker Power! Race and Activism in South Africa and the San Francisco Bay Area.  This book explores how workers in South Africa and San Francisco ports have harnessed their role in the global economy to promote worker rights and social justice causes more broadly. 

Peter will be joined by Clarence Thomas, a third generation Oakland longshoreman and a leader of the Black Student Union during the 1968-69 San Francisco State Strike.  

This event is co-sponsored with the Labor Archives and Research Center and the Department of History.