Ideas and Images Speaker Series

Ideas and Images: Visiting Scholars and Artists program from Flagler College presents the speaker series titled Race and the American South: St. Augustine in Context This series commemorates the 50^th Anniversary of the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964.

April 17, 2014 presents "Brotherhood and 'Brotherhoodism' in the Civil Rights Era American South". This lecture is presented by Dr. Ted Ownby, Professor of History and Southern Studies at University of Mississippi.

Dr. Ownby writes and teaches classes on the social and cultural history of the American South. He has authored the books American Dreams in Mississippi: Consumers, Poverty, and Culture, 1830-1998 (1999) and Subduing Satan: Religion, Recreation and Manhood in the Rural South, 1865-1920 (1990) and edited the book Black and White: Cultural Interaction in the Antebellum South (1993).

About the series: Flagler Colleges Ideas and Images series features an international composition of artists and authors, each introducing a fresh and creative component to the community. This season the series will host special programs focused on the 50^th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and St. Augustine's role in that era.

Admission: FREE

Where? In the Flagler Room at Flagler College located 74 King Street St. Augustine, FL 32084. (The Flagler Room is located off the main rotunda on the first floor of the Ponce building).

When? Tuesday, April 17, 2014 at 7 - 9 pm

Please visit here or call (904) 829-6481 for more information. This speaker series will hold numerous other dates and speakers.