Reading, Pa.- Historian Peter Cole will give a talk, “Radicalism and Race on the Philadelphia Waterfront,” on Monday, October 20, 2008, at 4:30 p.m. The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held in the Klein Lecture Hall.

In the 1920s and 1930s, led by the radical Industrial Worker of the World Ben Fletcher, the dockworkers on Philadelphia’s waterfront formed a formidable union in the face of great adversity.

Cole is an associate professor of history at Western Illinois University. The University of Illinois Press recently published his book about the Philadelphia waterfront, Wobblies on the Waterfront: Interracial Unionism in Progressive Era Philadelphia.

For more information or disabled assistance, please contact professor Gerald Ronning, Ph.D., at 610-921-7820. The Klein Lecture Hall is located on the Albright College campus at 13th & Bern Streets in Reading, Pa.

Founded in 1856, Albright College is a nationally ranked, private college with a rigorous liberal arts curriculum with an interdisciplinary focus. The College’s hallmarks are connecting fields of learning, collaborative teaching and learning, and a flexible curriculum that allows students to create an individualized education. Albright College enrolls more than 1,650 undergraduates in traditional programs, another 500 adult students in accelerated degree programs, and 100 students in the master’s program in education. Albright College is located in Reading, Pennsylvania, about 60 miles west of Philadelphia.