In Conversation

Laura Warren Hill Discusses ‘Strike the Hammer’

In these edited excerpts from an interview by RIT history professor Tamar Carroll and history major Caitlin McCabe, Laura Warren Hill discusses the sources she used to write Strike the Hammer: The Black Freedom Struggle in Rochester, New York, 1940–1970 (Cornell University Press, 2021), includin...

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