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Featured Speaker: Bob King, International UAW President.\r
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This video clip was recorded on Saturday, May 24, 2014 during the “Celebration for the Life of General Gordon Baker, Jr.” (09/06/1941 - 05/18/2014) service officiated by Reverend Edwin A. Rowe at UAW Local 600, 10550 Dix, Dearborn, MI. \r
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General Baker was a labor organizer/educator/historian and a founder of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers and the Detroit Revolutionary Union Movement (DRUM). \r
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“General Gordon Baker Jr. of Detroit is one of the most significant 20th century revolutionaries. On Sunday, May 18, 2014 he passed away. An intellectual of immense gravity, Gen Baker was loved and respected across the ideological spectrum. His life covered 60 years of activity, inspiring two generations of revolutionaries with his advocacy for social and political revolution.” - Carolyn Baker, “The Evolution of a Revolutionary” on Facebook - 08/19/2014.\r
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