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Simon Balto, IRH ACLS Postdoctoral Resident Fellow, awarded the 2019 Hooks National Book Award

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Book cover of Occupied Territory. It is a photograph. In the foreground there is a man sitting on a fire-hydrant with a long laying on the sidewalk. In the background there is a group of about seven police officers perched on parked cars and chatting.

Simon Balto, IRH ACLS Postdoctoral Resident Fellow, has been awarded the 2019 Hooks National Book Award for his work Occupied Territory Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power published with UNC Press. Simon will be giving a talk on his book on Oct. 20 at 6:00 PM on the Hooks Institute Facebook page. The event will be LiveStreamed and can be found using the following link. For more information about the award click here.