On this week’s Fresnolandia, Jordan and Danielle talk with Paul Gilmore, a history professor at Fresno City College, about a little-known moment in Fresno labor history: the Fresno Free Speech Fight of 1910-11, at present day Mariposa Plaza downtown.
They talk about efforts by the International Workers of the World union to organize migrant Chinese, Mexican, and Filipino farmworkers; how city leaders reacted to worker attempts to ‘air their grievances’ on the street; and the history of progressive activism in Fresno.
