When Black communities across the United States went up in flames in the 1960s, Midwest cities, where racial inequity was endemic, were among those most likely to burn. In her book, Midwest Unrest Howard explores those rebellions, paying particular attention to the ways that region, race, class, and gender all played critical and often overlapping roles in shaping Black people’s resistance to racialized oppression. In her Floating Friday presentation, she will discuss how multiple parties, including municipal governments, city residents, scholars, and most importantly rebels, wielded urban revolt as a political tool to achieve their own objectives.