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Date released: 2/19/2010
Friday, March 19, 2010 at 7 p.m.
Buffalo, NY Canisius College will welcome civil rights historian
Raymond O. Arsenault, PhD, to campus on Friday, March 19, 2010 at 7
p.m. in the Regis Room located in the Richard E. Winter '42 Student
Center. Arsenault is the John Hope Franklin Professor of Southern
History and co-director of the Florida Studies Program at the
University of South Florida. His lecture, titled "Freedom Riders," is
free and open to the public.
Arsenault is the author of two prizewinning books on Southern
politics and society. His book, Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle
for Racial Justice (2006), was made into a documentary and nominated
in the U.S. documentary category at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.
Freedom Riders was one of 16 films chosen from 862 submissions. A $1
million PBS documentary was also created based on the book.
Arsenault is a consultant for the national Civil Rights Museum and
Rosa Parks Museum. His most recent book is Sound of Freedom: Marian
Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Concert that Awakened America
(2009). He is currently writing a biography of Arthur Ashe.
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The lecture is sponsored by the Peter Canisius Professorship in the
African American Experience and the Buffalo Chapter of the NAACP.
For more information, contact Bruce J. Dierenfield, PhD, professor of
history and director of the All-College Honors Program, at (716)
888-2683 or dierenfb@canisius.edu.
Canisius College is one of 28 Jesuit colleges in the nation and the
premier private college in Western New York. Canisius prepares
leaders intelligent, caring, faithful individuals able to pursue
and promote excellence in their professions, their communities and
their service to humanity.
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