Jun 27
When Woody Guthrie arrived in Los Angeles in the Spring of 1937, he was something of a hick. A hillbilly folksinger. A refugee from the Dust Bowl. Like a million other out-of-work Americans, “jus’ lookin’ for a job a work.”
He landed that job at KFVD radio station, where he performed a live daily show …
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Jan 10
2011 was a great year for books about Wisconsin labor. These book reviews were compiled from publishers’ websites by Laurie Wermter, AFSCME Local 2412 activist and member of the Wisconsin Labor History Society. –ed.
Blue Jenkins: Working for Workers by Julia Pferdehirt, Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2011 $12.95
When William “Blue” Jenkins was only 6 …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.scfl.org/2012/01/10/some-fine-winter-reading/
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