User:Kenneth Burt

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Kenneth Burt is the political director of the California Federation of Teachers and the author of the forthcoming book, The Search for a Civic Voice: California Latino Politics (2007), with a foreward by Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. Educated at Berkeley and Harvard, Burt has published essays in several anthologies and academic journals, and has presented at numerous conferences. He publishes an on-line column at CaliforniaProgressReportc.com. He came across Citizendium by chance: the paper on the "CIO" cites his article "Latino Empowerment in Los Angeles:Postwar Dreams and Cold War Fears, 1948-1952," in Labors Heritage, 1996 8(1). Burt's historical interests are in Latinos, Jews, labor and California history. For more information go to www.KennethBurt.com