The Manatee, Sarasota and Pinellas Community Remembrance Project Coalitions invite you to bear witness to the truth about racial terror in Greater Tampa Bay. This panel discussion will explore acts of documented lynchings that need to be exposed, acknowledged and reckoned in support of the ongoing quest for healing and equity in our nation.
WHEN: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2021, 6:30 P.M. ET
WHERE: ZOOM (VIRTUAL) MEETING ID: 986 8884 8459
PANELISTS:
Julie Armstrong, Ph.D., University of South Florida, St. Petersburg Professor of English. Author of The Cambridge Companion to Civil Rights Literature (2015) and Mary Turner and the Memory of Lynching (2011).
Raymond Arsenault, Ph.D., University of South Florida, St. Petersburg John Hope Franklin Professor of Southern History Florida Studies Program Cofounder and Senior Scholar. Author of Freedom Riders (2007) and Arthur Ashe: A Life (2018).
Dan Boxser, Boxser Diversity Initiative (Sarasota).
Jacqueline Hubbard Esq., President of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History St. Petersburg.
Andrew Walker, Director of Health and Wellness for the National Senior Games Association.