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Panel on “Challenging Exclusion and Segregation in the Mid-Columbia Region” (via Zoom)
January 26, 2021 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
A panel featuring Robert Bauman, Robert Franklin, and Laura Arata will explore the racial segregation and resistance to discrimination in the Mid-Columbia region. The panel coincides with the publication of Bauman and Franklin’s new book Echoes of Exclusion and Resistance: Voices from the Hanford Region, published by the WSU Press. Hosted by the WSU Tri Cities College of Arts and Sciences. Registration is required to attend. Registrants will obtain the Zoom link through registration. Register at: bit.ly/3r2VKBB
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Professor, History
WSU Tri-Cities
Robert Bauman is Professor of History and Academic Director of Arts and Sciences at Washington State University Tri-Cities. He is an award-winning scholar and author of a number of articles and book chapters and two books, Race and the War on Poverty: From Watts to East LA (2008) and Fighting to Preserve a Nation’s Soul: America’s Ecumenical War on Poverty (2019). He also is co-editor, with Robert Franklin, and co-author of Nowhere to Remember: Hanford, White Bluffs and Richland to 1943, published by WSU Press in 2018, and Echoes of Exclusion and Resistance: Voices from the Hanford Region, to be published by WSU Press in December 2020. His article, “Jim Crow in the Tri-Cities, 1943-1950” won the Charles Gates Award for the best article published in the Pacific Northwest Quarterly in 2005.
Assistant Director
Hanford History Project
Lecturer, History
WSU Tri-Cities
Robert R. Franklin is the Assistant Director and Archivist of the Hanford History Project, Director of the Hanford Oral History Project, a Certified Archivist, and a Lecturer in the History Department at WSUTC. Raised on a small farm in the Matanuska Valley of Alaska, Robert got his B.A. in History (cum laude) from the University of Hawaii, Hilo on Hawaii Island in 2011. Robert received his M.A. in History with a Public History focus at Washington State University in 2014. The Hanford History Project proudly manages the Department of Energy’s Hanford Collection, an archive, artifact, archaeological, and oral history collection focused on the WWII and Cold War history of the Hanford Site. The first volume of that series, Nowhere to Remember: Hanford, White Bluffs, and Richland to 1943 was released in 2018 by WSU Press, and the forthcoming book, Echoes of Exclusion and Resistance: Voices from the Hanford Region, to be published by WSU Press in late 2020.
Assistant Professor, History
Director of Public History
Oklahoma State University
Laura J. Arata is Assistant Professor of History and Director of Public History at Oklahoma State University. She received her PhD from Washington State University, where she also previously served as a co-principal investigator for the oral history project. She has authored two chapters for volumes in the Hanford History series – “Orchards and Open Arms: Women in the Priest Rapids Valley” (in Volume One) and “‘To Better My Condition’: African American Women in the Tri CIties” (in Volume Three). Her first book, Race and the Wild West: Sarah Bickford, the Montana Vigilantes, and the Tourism of Decline, 1870 – 1930 was released this summer from the University of Oklahoma Press.