How Did These Historic Developments Impact Black Americans? And How Did Black Americans Impact these Historic Developments? Register here for a link to the Zoom conversation. The current economic crisis and movement against institutionalized racism provide a great vantage point from which to consider the 1930s and engage in a conversation between the past and […]

Register here for an invitation to the Zoom meeting. The stories of American workers' lives are much too little known. Similarly, the stories of African Americans' lives are too rarely told. What happens when we investigate the intersection of these two narratives? Such a journey can yield significant insight into the making and remaking of […]

The East Side Freedom Library invites you to the October session of our Labor History Reading Group Immigration, Ethnicity, Race, and Class: The Growing Puerto Rican Presence in Central Pennsylvania Tuesday, October 20, 2020, 7PM This meeting will be on Zoom. You must register here to participate.  The Pandemic-related crisis in the meatpacking industry has raised our […]

The East Side Freedom Library invites you to our monthly Labor History Reading Group. Tuesday, November 17, 2020, 7-8:30PM Register here to receive the invitation to this Zoom meeting. Activists today are increasingly working at the intersections of race, class, and gender. Activist scholars, particularly labor historians, have been exploring the past both to understand […]

The East Side Freedom Library invites you to the January meeting of our Labor History Reading Group 9to5: Women Workers Organize Themselves in the 1970s Register to receive the Zoom link here We are starting our 2021 engagement with labor history with a double-barreled exploration of women workers’ organizing in the 1970s. On Friday evening, […]

A conversation with historian Jordan T. Camp Register here to receive the Zoom link and reading for this event This month, ESFL is providing multiple opportunities to explore the experiences of African American workers in US history and the complex interactions between race and class. For our monthly Labor History Reading Group, we are reading […]

Tom O’Connell will interview this new book’s authors, Terry Greene Sterling and Jude Joffle-Block, followed by an open conversation. Driving While Brown documents Arizona’s relentless immigration crackdowns, which were championed by Arpaio who became the nation’s most notorious immigration enforcer. The authors interviewed the sheriff, victims of his policies, his loyal supporters, and his tenacious […]