ONLINE: Occupied Territory: A History of Racist Policing in the United States

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Lucinda A. Stipp (Ball State University)

University of Iowa professor Simon Balto.

The Havens Wright Center hosts a timely lecture by Simon Balto, an assistant professor of history and African American studies at the University of Iowa (and UW-Madison alumnus). The lecture will likely share some material with Balto's 2020 book, Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power; he has also written for The Progressive, Time, The Journal of African American History and other periodicals. Register here.

press release:

Due to COVID-19 all Havens Wright Center events will be hosted online on zoom this semester. To attend an event you must register in advance on Eventbrite (click on the links above). You will be sent a confirmation email after registering, and on the day of the talk you will be sent a link to join the zoom call, along with instructions on how to do this. For any additional information please email ramand@wisc.edu.

SIMON BALTO is an assistant professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Iowa. He is the author of Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power (University of North Carolina Press, 2019) and has written for numerous scholarly and popular outlets, including Time, The Washington Post, The Progressive, The Journal of African American History, the Journal of Urban History, and Labor, among others.