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on Friday Sept. 13 at 12 PM our time, professor Cheryl Higashida will give a talk titled "Radiotelephony, Race and Rights"

Beginning in the 1960s, the civil rights and farm workers movements developed their own radiotelephone systems, thereby challenging the whiteness of mobile telephony. This history of social movement telephony amplifies linkages between the civil rights and farm workers movements as well as crucial differences between their respective pursuits of political progress through technological projects.

This is a hybrid event: we'll be in person in CASE W250 and also streaming on our Twitch channel https://www.twitch.tv/mediaarchaeology