John Portlock

John is a Ph.D. candidate in American history at the University of Rochester. His dissertation, “Before Riverside: Black Antiwar Activism, 1917-1967” focuses on the work of Hubert Harrison, A. Philip Randolph, Coretta Scott King, and Charlotta Bass. In it, he investigates the way in which the black American antiwar movement of the 20th century dovetailed, and in many ways shaped, the attendant civil rights movement. His chapter, “In the Fabled Land of Make-Believe: Charlotta Bass and Jim Crow Los Angeles” will be published in the edited collection, The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North: Segregation and Struggle Outside of the South in spring 2018.