A scene from Stevedore (3-act play of a longshoremen's strike) written by Paul Peter and George Sklar (American playwright, 1908 - 1988), and produced by the Negro Repertory Company in Seattle, in 1936.
Stevedore's cast brought white and African American actors together in a play about the tenuous solidarity built during labor strikes
The 1936 production of “Stevedore” by George Sklar and Paul Peter, which explored the confluence of class and racial prejudice
The play so resonated with Seattle's audiences, who had experienced the 1934 longshore strike, that some members of the audience spontaneously joined the cast on stage to help build the barricades in the final scene.
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