Please join us on Monday, February 5th from 5pm-6pm at the Nelson Poynter Memorial Library at USF St. Pete for a presentation and book signing by Dr. Ray Arsenault celebrating his newest book–the first book-length biography of John Lewis. This event is free and open to the public.
In John Lewis: In Search of the Beloved Community, Arsenault traces Lewis’ upbringing in rural Alabama, his activism as a Freedom Rider and leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, his championing of voting rights and anti-poverty initiatives, and his decades of service as the “conscience of Congress”. Books will be available for sale with a book signing after the talk.
Raymond Arsenault is the John Hope Franklin Professor of Southern History Emeritus at the University of South Florida. He is the author of several award-winning books on civil rights history, including Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice; The Sound of Freedom: Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Concert That Awakened America and Arthur Ashe: A Life.