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Michael Munk, author of The Portland Red Guide, will speak about the city of Portland’s heritage of social dissent.  Using maps and numerous photos, Munk tells the stories of people and organizations who fought against repression and injustice and shows the sites of their activities left out of local placenames, memorials and monuments.

Munk was born in Prague in 1934 and escaped the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, fleeing with his family to the U.S. in 1939. He received a PhD in politics from New York University after degrees from the University of Oregon and Reed College. He was a professor of political science at Rutgers University in New Jersey for twenty-five years before retiring to Portland. Since then, his interests and publications have focused on local radical history. In 2007, the Oregonian listed him among Portland’s “local literary luminaries.”

Co-sponsored by the WSUV CLA Speakers Program, Diversity Council, and American Social Movements and Culture class.