THE 1968 LOS ANGELES WALKOUTS

DR. JAMAL WRIGHT

Assistant Professor of History, Bakersfield College

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Photo credit:
Brown Berets at Lincoln High School
September 16, 1968
Photo by: Myron Dubee
Courtesy of the Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection

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Pulitzer Center

JUST ONE OF THE BOYS: THE REALITY AND MYTH OF WOMEN BREAKING INTO THE NEWSROOM

JOANNE CAVANAUGH SIMPSON
Lecturer at Johns Hopkins and Pulitzer Center Fellow

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Pulitzer Center

FROM BACK ALLEY TO THE BORDER: CRIMINAL ABORTION IN CALIFORNIA, 1920-1969

DR. ALICIA
GUTIERREZ-ROMINE
Assistant Professor of History, La Sierra University

Alicia Gutierrez-Romine is a U.S. historian with an emphasis on California and the west and the history of medicine. Gutierrez-Romine presents the first book focused on abortion on the West Coast as well as the border between the United States and Mexico. She provides a new approach to studying how providers of illegal abortions and their female clients navigated this underground network, including the investigations and trials that surrounded them.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 2021
6:00–7:30PM PST
Zoom Meeting ID: 798 895 5242
Password: Feminist7!
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Backcountry Ghosts: California Homesteaders and the Making of the American Dream

JOSH SIDES
Whitsett Chair of California History at California State University, Northridge

Dr. Sides joins us to talk about his new book Backcountry Ghosts: California Homesteaders and the Making of the American Dream. Join us to hear how this history still impacts us in California today.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
5:00–6:30PM PST


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The Original ERA Conflict and the ERA Today

REBECCA DEWOLF

Rebecca DeWolf is an award-winning historian with a Ph.D. in American history from American  University. She’ll join us to discuss Gendered Citizenship, the first full-length comprehensive study of the original conflict over the Equal Rights Amendment.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2021
5:00–6:30PM PST
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A Life After the Movement: Mississippi Mothers after Freedom Summer 1964

DR. PAMELA WALKER

Pamela N. Walker is an Assistant Professor of History at Texas A&M-San Antonio. Walker received her PhD in African American and Women’s history from Rutgers University. She is currently revising her manuscript “Signed, Sealed, Delivered: How Black and White Women used the Box Project and the Postal System to Fight Hunger and Feed the Mississippi Freedom Movement,” which examines motherhood, race, activism, benevolence and political consciousness in 1960s-era women’s social movement networks.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2021
12:00PM–1:30PM PST
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