Paul Ortiz

Paul Ortiz is the director of the award-winning Samuel Proctor Oral History Program and associate professor of history at the University of Florida. He is a past president of the Oral History Association. His publications include the Emancipation Betrayed a history of the Black Freedom struggle in Florida, and the co-edited volume, Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Jim Crow South which recently went into its 4^th printing. Paul has published in journals  including Latino Studies, The Oral History Review, Truthout, New Politics, Southern Exposure, the Florida Historical Quarterly, and McClatchy New Services. He is finishing a book titled “Our Separate Struggles Are Really One: African American and Latino Histories” that will be published by Beacon Press.