Lawrence Thibeaux
Template:TOCnestleft Lawrence Thibeaux, born circa 1942, is a former San Francisco labor leader.
Background
Lawrence Thibeaux was 3 when he took the train to San Francisco, from Louisiana with his mother. In junior high school, he was bused to a school, where the students were mostly Latino, and the teachers were not friendly.
"It was obvious that we were poor," said Thibeaux, who now lives in upscale Kensington in Contra Costa County, with his Kenyan wife, Josie. "That was the first time we saw teenagers with automobiles."
He said the teachers "didn't particularly care about teaching us anything. . . . They had the impression that we were not going to become anything or do anything in our life."
At San Francisco Polytechnic High School, he said, it was more of the same treatment. Yet Thibeaux, a former gang member, ended up taking college labor studies classes.
He has been a longshoreman for 31 years and is a former president of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 10.[1]
Honored at Communist Party fund raiser
In September 1999, five people were honored at a Communist Party USA fund raising event in Berkeley.[2]
- Maudelle Shirek Vice Mayor, Berkeley
- Cindy Chavez, San Jose City Council member
- Ruth Holbrook, President Sacramento Central Labor Council
- Lawrence Thibeaux, ILWU Local 10
- Daniel HoSang, Executive Director People United for a Better Oakland
1991 - In Memory of Archie Brown
The People's Weekly World 1991 May Day Supplement page B1 included a list of signatories honoring late Northern California communist Archie Brown.
The list included Lawrence Thibeaux.
References
- ↑ [http://articles.sfgate.com/1998-09-20/news/17732005_1_shipyard-workers-black-school-black-people, SFGate, Lured by Jobs, Left High and Dry / Her husband, a welder, came to the Bay Area from Louisiana during World War II. Times have changed in Hunters Point. September 20, 1998|By Torri Minton, Chronicle Staff Writer]
- ↑ Peoples Weekly World, September 11, 1999