1919 General Strike in Seattle

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Mon, 02/04/2019 - 9:00am to 10:00am

Norm Diamond revisits the 1919 Seattle General Strike with guest Rob Rosenthal, composer of the mid-1980s rock opera Seattle 1919. For many years Rob Rosenthal taught a course at Wesleyan University in Connecticut on Music and Social Movements. He will be in the Pacific Northwest for the Labor History conference, May 3-5. For more information on the conference see: pnlha.org.

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