Harry Bridges and the ILWU

Please join us for the Labor Archives and Research Center's 37th Anniversary Annual Program, featuring Robert W. Cherny, Professor emeritus of History at San Francisco State University, discussing his new biography, Harry Bridges Labor Radical, Labor Legend (University of Illinois Press, 2023), with a musical performance by Marie Shell.

WHEN: February 24, 2023 

TIME: Doors at 6:00 pm; Program 7:00-8:00 pm (PST) 

WHERE: ILWU Local 34, 4 Berry St., San Francisco, CA 

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We ask that all attendees wear masks, and for the comfort and safety of our audience, we will not be serving food or drinks this year. Proof of vaccination or negative COVID test required. 

Robert Cherny helped found the Labor Archives and Research Center and has served on the Advisory Board from its inception. He received his PhD in history from Columbia University, joined the history faculty at San Francisco State University in 1971, and became emeritus in 2012. He served at various times as chair of the history department, director of the labor studies program, chair of the academic senate, chair of the CSU academic senate, acting dean for behavioral and social sciences, and interim dean of undergraduate studies. He is the author or co-author of forty-some published essays and seven monographs, co-editor of two anthologies, and co-author of college textbooks on US and California history. He began working on a biography of Harry Bridges in 1985 at the invitation of Harry and Nikki Bridges and spent the next fifteen years doing archival research at more than 25 archives, but university and other responsibilities delayed him from completing the book until after he retired. We are pleased to have Professor Cherny present his research at the ILWU Hall for this annual program. 

Musical performance will be by Marie Shell, the granddaughter of Harry Bridges, who will perform “The Ballad of Harry Bridges.” 

For more information, contact larc@sfsu.edu or 415.405.5571