You can't tell the history of Bridgeport without Jasper McLevy. Bridgeport's longest serving & only socialist mayor is well known for an incident of not plowing Bridgeport's streets, but his story is one of a lifetime of honest service to the city, in which he takes on and replaced corrupt administrations and political machines.

Author & Fairfield University Professor of Labor & Working-Class History Cecelia Bucki, Librarian & Archivist Jaime Pettit, & Librarian Adam Cleri explore Jasper McLevy, and socialism in Bridgeport & Connecticut.

For more on this topic, listen to Episode 5 of Bridgeport Unmasked (Revolutionary Connecticut by Andy Piascik)