Contact information
Name:
Joshua Miller
Phone:
610-330-5402
Email:
millerj@lafayette.edu
Categories:
When:
Wednesday, April 5, 2017 - 4:15pm - 6:00pm
Where:
Gendebein Room, Skillman Library
Presenter:
Frank Bardacke, Political Activist
Price:
Free
Frank Bardacke was active in the civil rights movement in the South and in the Free Speech and anti-war movements in Berkeley in the 1960's. In 1967 his indictment as one of the Oakland 7 for his anti-war activities was dismissed. He moved to California's Central Coast in 1970, worked for six seasons in the Salinas Valley fields, and taught at the Watsonville Adult School for twenty-five years. He also taught a course on “The Politics of California Agriculture” at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is featured in the documentary, “Berkeley in the Sixties," available on dvd and streaming on the Skillman Library web-site, and is the author of Trampling Out the Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers.
Sponsored by:
Government and Law Department and the Office of Intercultural Development Social Justice Speaker Series