General Gordon Baker Jr. was a co-founder of the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers during the late 1960s. He was a labor organizer and activist.
NOTE: This informational blog was compiled by and reprinted with permission from Abdul Akalimat, PhD
Bio
A No Struggle, No Development Production https://youtu.be/1lWDkEie5Lk
League of Revolutionaries for a New America http://www.speakersforanewamerica.com/gen.html https://rallycomrades.org/2014/08/general-gordon-baker-jr-evolution-revolutionary/
wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Baker
Walter Reuther Library, Wayne State University https://reuther.wayne.edu/node/12263
Solidarity https://solidarity-us.org/in_remembrance_of_general_baker/
Videos
On Solidarity https://youtu.be/q5oiFcwyZgw
2005 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl6AWbH0pJY
2007 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUfop2Pl9pc
2011 https://www.rankandfile.ca/weekend-video-remembering-general-baker/
2013 https://vimeo.com/96524981
2013 Revolutionary art in Detroit during the depression https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmCejbllKco
2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxsgktn_Igg
Tributes to General Baker
by Valerie Baker (youngest sister) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXTH4Y9UZ84
By Ron March https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mvh2qUQz-ek https://youtu.be/7lGeeUZ_qn4
by Charles Simmons https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNKHNSYPiSA
by Luke Tripp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yyZz8k3k4E
Legacy
General Baker Institute https://www.generalbakerinstitute.com/ https://www.facebook.com/GeneralBakerInstitute/
Detroit's Radical Black Tradition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UueScAvxY4Q
The Black Scholar https://www.theblackscholar.org/a-tribute-to-william-bill-watkins-by-w-f-santiago-valles/