Cheryl Lynn Greenberg is the Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of History, Emerita, at Trinity College in Connecticut. Newly retired, she taught courses on African American history, the Civil Rights Movement, and twentieth-century social and political history both at Trinity College and the Cheshire Correctional Institution. In addition to numerous articles and anthology chapters, she has written three books: “Or Does It Explode?” Black Harlem in the Great Depression (Oxford University Press, 1991); Troubling the Waters: Black-Jewish Relations in the American Century (Princeton University Press, 2006); and, To Ask for an Equal Chance: African Americans in the Great Depression (Rowman and Littlefield, 2009). She co-wrote “A Day I Ain’t Never Seen Before”: Remembering the Civil Rights Movement in Marks, Mississippi (University of Georgia Press, 2023) with Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker Joe Bateman, and edited A Circle of Trust: Remembering SNCC (Rutgers University Press, 1998). Her ongoing research focuses on twentieth-century debates over civil liberties and hate speech among civil rights agencies and she is also engaged in issues of race and mass incarceration.
Abstract: Israel/Palestine as Flashpoint
