Jessica Levy on “Black Power, Inc.: Global American Business and the Post-Apartheid City”

Jessica Levy explains how American corporations and black entrepreneurs worked together to forge a new politics linking American business with black liberation at home and abroad, focusing particularly on Leon Howard Sullivan, a civil rights leader and board member of General Motors who used his position to influence American corporate anti-apartheid actions. Levy is a PhD Candidate at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Related Collections AFSCME Office of the Secretary-Treasurer: Bill Lucy Records UAW Presidents Office: Owen Bieber Records Coalition of Black Trade Unionists Records UAW GM Department Records Episode Credits Producers: Dan Golodner and Troy Eller English Host: Dan Golodner Interviewee: Jessica Levy Sound: Troy Eller English With support from the Reuther Podcast Collective: Bart Bealmear, Elizabeth Clemens, Meghan Courtney, Troy Eller English, Dan Golodner, Paul Neirink, and Mary Wallace