Eric Arnesen, professor of history at the George Washington University, specializes in race, labor, and civil rights. He is author of Brotherhoods of Color: Black Railroad Workers and the Struggle for Equality (2001), Waterfront Workers of New Orleans: Race, Class, and Politics, 1863-1923 (1991), and Black Protest and the Great Migration: A Brief History with Documents (2002), and is editor or coeditor of four other books. A regular contributor to the Chicago Tribune, he received the James Friend Memorial Award for Literary Criticism. He is currently writing a biography of civil rights and labor leader A. Philip Randolph.

Lecture topics:

• The Legacies of A. Philip Randolph: Civil Rights, Labor, and the New Black Politics
• The Divided Homefront: African American Politics and Protest During World War I and World War II
• African Americans and the Great Migration
• Myths of Solidarity: Race, the African American Labor Tradition, and the History of American Labor
• African American History, the Left, and Anticommunism

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