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In this Cold War Seminar, Ian Rocksborough-Smith, will explore the activities of Catholic liberals who worked against racism in several urban U.S. settings – notably Chicago, Boston and New York.

Ian Rocksborough-Smith teaches history at the University of the Fraser Valley in British Columbia. His primary research interests include the study of late 19th and 20th Century United States, public history, urban studies, and histories of race, religion, and empire in the Atlantic world. He has published in The Black Scholar: Journal of Black Studies and Research, Afro-Americans in New York Life and History, Harvard University’s African American National Biography, The Journal of American Studies of Turkey and The Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society. His book is available for order from the University of Illinois Press entitled: Black Public History in Chicago (April/May 2018).

Commentator - Sara Rzeszutek is an associate professor of history at St. Francis College. She has contributed chapters to Freedom Rights: New Perspectives on the Civil Rights Movement and Red Activists and Black Freedom: James and Esther Jackson and the Long Civil Rights Revolution. She is the author of James and Esther Cooper Jackson: Love and Courage in the Black Freedom Movement.

Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century (University Press of Kentucky, 2018).