Visiting Scholars Program Lecture Series: Freedom Train - Black Politics and the Story of Interracial Labor Solidarity
A lecture by Cedric de Leon, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Event Details
Date
Thursday, October 30, 2025
Time
12-1:30 p.m.
Location
Description
Cedric de Leon is Professor of Sociology & Labor Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He has published six books. His newest, Freedom Train (University of California Press), is about the role of Black labor activists in desegregating the U.S. labor movement. Cedric directed the UMass Amherst Labor Center (2018-2022), the country's premier worker-side graduate program in Labor Studies. Prior to becoming an academic, elected leader and staff organizer in the U.S. labor movement.
Cost
Free
Contact
Accessibility
We value inclusion and access for all participants and are pleased to provide reasonable accommodations for this event. Please call 608-772-4103 or email pagac@wisc.edu to make a disability-related accommodation request. Requests should be made by Thursday, October 16, 2025, though reasonable effort will be made to support late accommodation requests.