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I’m an American: How Jim Crow Laws Affected the Hispanic Community
January 26, 2020 @ 2:00 pm
This program examins how Jim Crow laws affected the Hispanic community, featuring a Latina’s painful teenage memories about discrimination during World War II and how she voiced her rights as an American citizen.
Rebecca Dominguez-Karimi is an oral historian, founder of The Treasures From Aztlan, writer, and speaker. She is also an adjunct professor of English and produces podcasts and radio programs. An oral historian since 2005, her Treasures From Aztlan collection contains Mexican American narrators that lived during the Jim Crow era. Her non-fiction writings and academic essays have been published in several publications, including Multicultural Memories of Race and Change and An Introvert in an Extrovert World: Essays on the Quiet Ones.
This event is funded by Florida Humanities’ Florida Talks program in partnership with the Sulphur Springs Museum and Heritage Center.
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Event Date/time:
January 26, 2020 @ 2:00 pm -
January 26, 2020 @ 2:00 pm
