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On 1/7/19 3:23 PM, Jim Farmelant via Marxism wrote:
From his son, Peter Salter on Facebook:
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The strongest man I ever knew died today, in his home, and in the care and
companionship of the family he helped create.
John R. Salter Jr., later known as John Gray, left a permanent mark on this
world as a labor organizer, Civil Rights leader, author, college professor,
father, grandfather, great-grandfather. He liked to say he was an agitator, but
he was really a helper and a solver. He could not stomach injustice, and the
bigger the wrong, the fiercer the foe, the better.
Our father held on longer than anyone expected, but that was within in his
character. Like everything else in his life, he was going to do this on his own
terms.
He is already missed and mourned, but we know he will always be near, and his legacy
will live on."
Eerie.
Just yesterday he came to mind and I went to his website to see if he
was still alive.
He unsubbed from the list at least a decade ago so I lost touch with him.
Here's something he wrote for American Socialist, the magazine that Bert
Cochran and Harry Braverman published in the 1950s that I identify with
strongly:
Navaho Indians: Oil and Mining Buzzards Hover Overhead:
https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/amersocialist/amersoc_5709-b.htm
Here's Hunter and me musing on the movie "Broken Arrow" about the Apache
wars: https://louisproyect.org/2009/12/26/broken-arrow/
He was also deeply involved with the civil rights movement as well
documented on his website: http://hunterbear.org/
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