General Gordon Baker, Jr.

Memorial Services

Reverend Edwin Rowe (retired, Central United Methodist Church) will preside.
All Are Welcome - Come Celebrate Gen's Life
Saturday May 24, 2014 at UAW Local 600 
10550 Dix Ave, Dearborn, MI 48120 
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Rest In Power!

• DemocracyNow! announcement:Black Labor Organizer, Educator General Baker Dies  (directly)
• UAW tweet, Dave Zirin tweet, DemocracyNow! tweet
• Wayne State University Biography
• LRNA Biography

“Force them to expose their hand so bad that they lose even when they win.”
– General Baker, 14 December 2013 ¹

Video

• 2013 CUMC 9th Annual Peace & Justice Banquet video
• 2013 The Past is Present video
• 2011 General Baker in Detroit: Part 1, Part 2
• 2011 From Motown to Coal Town video
• USSF 2010: Poverty Scholars Discussion with General Baker series
• 2007 LRNA video
• 2006 Benton Harbor video
• U of M Dearborn Motor City Voices list of videos
• First Job in an Auto Plant
• Roots of Activism in Civil Rights and the Detroit Community
• Detroit Riots or the Rebellion of 1967
• Dodge Main
• Working Conditions at Dodge Main
• Origins of DRUM
• Wildcat Strike
• The DRUM Begins
• Inspiration and Ideas Behind DRUM and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers
• Immediate Goals

Radio

• Uhuru Radio: Soul Man Kenny Hamilton; General Gordon Baker, Jr. 
• The A-Infos Radio Project: The 1967 Detroit Rebellion in Review 

Written

• 2013 Grito Productions: In the Presence of Labor History Giants
• Black Like Mao, The Marxist-Leninist (PDF)
• Black Workers Unity and Resistance to Economic Barbarism MALCOLM X: Radical Tradition and a Legacy of Struggle
• 1998 Black Radical Congress [Mission], What next for the Black Radical Congress
• Autoworker Sheds Light On Industry Situation, People's Tribune
• The Black Power Movement (PDF)

• Charles H Wright: Finally Got the News / Fighting Racism in the Labor Movement

• Detroit: 1967 Forum about the rebellion.

• Google Book search
• Wiki KeyWiki