The Fire This Time: Police Violence and Urban Uprisings from the 1960s to Jacob Blake

Doria Dee Johnson was a much admired and beloved graduate student in our Department of History and an inspiring model of scholarly engagement in making history publicly present. Doria passed far too soon in 2018. This lecture will honor her memory with ongoing conversations on research in the histories of injustice and inequality.

Elizabeth Hinton is Associate Professor of History & African American Studies, and Professor of Law, at Yale University. Considered one of the nation’s leading experts on criminalization and policing, Hinton’s research focuses on the persistence of poverty, racial inequality, and urban violence in the 20th century United States.