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E73: Ben Fletcher, part 1

Working Class History

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Fletcher's Journey to Overcome Racism

In addition to organizing on the docks where he worked, Fletcher also travelled around the country for the IWW public speaking and organizing. Thanks to his recollections as well as some documentary evidence and wobbly newspapers as well as the federal government spies, he was regularly sent up and down the Atlantic coast so he was in Norfolk, Virginia, a major port, Baltimore, New York City occasionally,. Providence, Rhode Island - not a huge port but nevertheless southern New England and Boston. He would travel up and Down the coast probably by rail but maybe by ship to organize more dock workers and more black workers specifically.

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