Episodes
Tuesday Feb 10, 2015
Leid Stories - 02.10.15
Tuesday Feb 10, 2015
Tuesday Feb 10, 2015
Toil and Trouble: Black Labor from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement (Part 2)
Our guest, Professor Charles L. Lumpkins, completes his presentation on African American labor from the Civil War to the turn of the 21st century—covering the periods of chattel slavery, Reconstruction, the Gilded Age, and the Progressive Era. (Check the archives at leidstories.podbean.com for Part 1, which aired Feb. 5.)
Dr. Lumpkins is a lecturer of labor and employment relations at Pennsylvania State University, where he earned both his doctorate in history in 2006, and teaches history and African American studies. He also holds a master’s degree in library science.
His scholastic research focuses particularly on the history of social and political movements, and the history of the working-class.
Dr. Lumpkins is the author of the highly praised American Pogrom: The East St. Louis Race Riot and Black Politics, a necessary historical reference for the state of affairs in Ferguson, Missouri, today.