Evening of Tar, Feathers & Terror: Anti-Labor in Sonoma

Join Barry Nitzberg, grandson of tar and feathering victim Sol Nitzberg, and historian Ken Kann, for a retrospective on early farm labor organizing and vigilante terror in Sonoma County California. Learn about the 1935 Sebastopol apple pickers strike, the assault on Barry’s grandfather and other labor organizers, the local community leaders who comprised the vigilantes, and the ACLU role in the following trial. Barry and Ken review the impacts of the violence on Sonoma County, its left-wing Jewish chicken ranching community, and the Nitzberg family.