LAWCHA Pandemic Book TalkMichael Goldfield, The Southern Key: Class, Race, and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s

August 20
via Zoom, United States

LAWCHA’s Pandemic Book Talks feature talks by LAWCHA members whose books launched in the midst of (or just before) the pandemic. Book talks will feature a presentation and discussion. Join us August 20 for Michael Goldfield, The Southern Key: Class, Race, and Radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s (Oxford University Press, 2020).

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