"Killed Helping Workers to Organize": African American & Latinx Narratives in Jim Crow/Juan Crow
Channel: Havens Wright Center for Social Justice
Date: 2022-09-25

A lecture by Paul Ortiz focusing on his project to center African American and Latinx experience within US history - that is, a history understood from the perspective of the margins - through the lens of the labor movement.

This event was co-sponsored by the Center for the Humanities at UW-Madison.

Paul Ortiz is Associate Professor of History and the Director of the award-winning Samuel Proctor Oral History Program at the University of Florida. His publications include the Emancipation Betrayed, a history of the Black Freedom struggle in Florida, and the co-edited volume, Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Jim Crow South, which recently went into its 4th printing. His forthcoming monograph is titled: Our Separate Struggles Are Really One: African American and Latino Histories. He is also co-author (with William H. Chafe) of the forthcoming book, Behind the Veil: African Americans in the Age of Segregation, 1895-1965.