Events Labor History LAWCHA

Join us at the OAH: Love & Solidarity, James Lawson and Nonviolence in the Search for Workers’ Rights

Join LAWCHA for a film showing (of Love & Solidarity) and discussion at the Organization of American Historians in Providence, Rhode Island, 9am (#oah 16_63). The panel, entitled “Nonviolence Leadership: The Life and Times of Rev. James M. Lawson, Jr.,” will feature Michael Honey, Dennis Dickerson, and Frances Jones-Sneed.

What can ordinary people do to change a world full of violence and hate? Is nonviolent revolution possible?

These questions and others will be addressed in the film by Michael Honey and Errol Webber, Love and Solidarity.

Author

  • Rosemary Feurer

    Rosemary Feurer is Professor of History at Northern Illinois University. She is the author of Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900-1950, among other books and essays. She is working on The Illinois Mine Wars, 1860-1940 and a new biography of Mary Harris "Mother" Jones.

Rosemary Feurer
Rosemary Feurer is Professor of History at Northern Illinois University. She is the author of Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900-1950, among other books and essays. She is working on The Illinois Mine Wars, 1860-1940 and a new biography of Mary Harris "Mother" Jones.