Chicago and Labor History

The Wobblies as Memory and Model

	From the Rosemont Collection

Thursday, May 1, 6 pm
Speaker: David Roediger, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Followed by a conversation with Penelope and Franklin Rosemont, Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company

Can you imagine any better way to spend May Day than with the Industrial Workers of the World, the storied radical labor organization founded in Chicago in 1905? The Franklin and Penelope Rosemont Collection of IWW Publications and Ephemera, 1905-2005, a treasure trove of Wobbly literature, records, and ephemera acquired by the Newberry in 2006, is open for research. Historian David Roediger will revisit the IWW's legacy and then discuss with the Rosemonts the remarkable stories of how they assembled the collection over four decades.

Admission is free. No reservation is required.

This lecture complements a Spotlight exhibit in the Spring 2008 - check www.newberry.org/exhibits/spotlight.html for more information! 

The Newberry Library gratefully acknowledges the National Endowment for the Humanities and Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Haffner for their generous support of public programming. Major funding is also provided by Richard and Barbara Franke, the MacLean-Fogg Family, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew W. McGhee, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew McNally, and the McCormick Tribune Foundation.

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