August 08, 2005

Building Bridges: Red Seas: Ferdinand Smith & Radical Black Sailors in the U.S. & Jamaica

Series: Building Bridges
Program Type: Weekly Program
Featured Speakers/Commentators: Prof. Gerald Horne
Producer: Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg

Summary: In the 1930s & 1940s. Ferdinand Smith, Jamaican-born co-founder & second-in-command of the National Maritime Union, stands out as one of the most powerful black labor leaders in the U.S. He was deported to Jamaica in the post WW II Red Scare.
Credits: produced by Mimi Rosenberg and Ken Nash
Building Bridges is regularly broadcast over WBAI 99.5 FM in the NYC Metro area on Mondays from 7-8 pm EST

Posted by rich at August 8, 2005 07:13 AM