Tonight Jerome Scott and walda katz-fishman, authors of Motown and the Making of Working-Class Revolutionaries: The Story of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, bring their book tour to the Bay Area. They’ll draw on the dozens of oral histories that make up the book and engage in a conversation covering the rise of the League from 1968 to 1971 in Detroit, the centrality of political education to the project, and the process of transformation through struggle that created working-class revolutionaries. 

Jerome Scott is a former autoworker, labor organizer in the auto plants of Detroit in the 1960s and 1970s, and member of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, was the founding director of Project South: Institute for the Elimination of Poverty & Genocide. He is a contributing author and editor of popular education toolkits and books including The United States Social Forum: Perspectives of a Movement, The Roots of Terror, Today's Globalization, and The Critical Classroom. 

walda katz-fishman is a scholar activist, popular educator and author, and professor of sociology at Howard University. She was a founding member and former board chair of Project South: Institute for the Elimination of Poverty & Genocide. She is a contributing author and editor of popular education toolkits and books including The United States Social Forum: Perspectives of a Movement, The Roots of Terror, Today's Globalization, and The Critical Classroom.