Join us Tuesday, December 10th, from 6 - 8 p.m. for A Lecture & Gallery Walkthrough
Light refreshments provided
The Civil Rights Movement and Photography
Lecture will be Located in the Madorsky Theater
Lecture by: UCF History Professor Dr. Robert Cassanello, followed by a walk through of our lower gallery displaying work from our permanent collection.
About the Presenter:
Dr. Robert Cassanello is an associate professor of history at the University of Central Florida. He is a social historian who writes about Jim Crow America and the Civil Rights Movement. His book To Render Invisible: Jim Crow and Public Life in New South Jacksonville won the Harry Moore Award in 2014 by the Florida Historical Society. His other books include, Migration and the Transformation of the Southern Workplace since 1945 with Colin J. Davis and Florida's Working-Class Past: Current Perspectives on Labor, Race, and Gender from Spanish Florida to the New Immigration with Melanie Shell-Weiss.
Additionally he produced the podcasts A History of Central Florida and The Florida Constitutions both won the Dunn Internet Broadcasting Award with the Florida Historical Society.