Dorchester Speaker’s Forum Presents James Green, Apr. 15

The Dorchester Speaker’s Forum presents a lecture and discussion with UMass Boston Professor and noted Labor Historian James Green. At a time when unions are dominating domestic news, this presentation will attempt provide some context to consider when thinking about the conflict. The program is FREE and open to the public and takes place in Peabody Hall at All Saints Church, 209 Ashmont St., Dorchester (near the corner of Dorchester Ave., adjacent to Ashmont Station) on Friday, April 15, 2011 at 7:30 pm. Doors open at 7. There is ample free parking in the church parking lot.

Green is professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Boston where he directs the graduate program in public history. He also teaches courses on the history of Boston, working class history, and social justice movements. He is author of Taking History to Heart: The Power of the Past in Building Social Movements (2000) and Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement, and the Bombing that Divided Gilded Age America (2006). He has served as president of the Labor and Working Class History Association, as a lecturer in the Harvard Trade Union Program, and as research director for the PBS series The Great Depression.

The presentation will be followed by a Q & A.

Past programs of the Dorchester Speaker’s Forum have included a panel discussion about artist Corita Kent and a discussion of what it means to be Irish-American with author Michael Patrick MacDonald. This program is made possible by an anonymous donor. For more information, email dsf@ashmontmedia.com.