Richard Lapchick Receives Lifetime Achievement Award
The Reverend Jesse Jackson honored Richard Lapchick, director of the DeVos Sport Business Management Program, with a lifetime achievement award for his work in civil rights. Lapchick was honored at a...
View ArticleAward-Winning Civil Rights Reporter to Speak at UCF
Internationally renowned reporter Jerry Mitchell, whose investigative work has helped solve cold murder cases from the civil rights era, will share his stories of justice and redemption at the...
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Documentary Tells Powerful Civil Rights Story
Together with the students in their spring 2010 Honors Advanced Documentary Workshop class, Lisa Mills and Robert Cassanello produced “Shadows of the Past, Reflections for the Future”, a documentary...
View ArticleAcclaimed Journalist's Stories of Courage, Convictions
Investigative reporter Jerry Mitchell told a University of Central Florida audience Tuesday night how he got his hands on sealed documents, interviewed suspects and helped unearth evidence in civil...
View ArticleDean Smith and a Civil Rights Legacy
This Tuesday marks the 57th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka that led to the desegregation of America’s schools. While many remember the...
View ArticleUCF’s Public History Center Rings in New School Year
UCF’s Public History Center in Sanford rang in the first day of Seminole County schools Monday and hosted an open house for the community. The old-time school bell in the 1902 building was rung by...
View ArticleEmmy-Winning Documentary to be Part of Civil Rights Discussion
The UCF Public History Center in Sanford will host a screening of clips from the Emmy-winning documentary “Freedom Riders” as part of a Nov. 2 community discussion about equality under the law and the...
View ArticleDaughters of Civil Rights Movement Look to Students for Change
The daughters of two historical figures from America’s civil rights movement spoke at UCF last Thursday at the 8th annual “Women and Leadership: A Global Perspective” forum. Cheryl Brown Henderson and...
View ArticleRedefining America’s Ethnicity, Gender and Race
When redefining the ethnicity, gender and race of American society, I find it is interrelated with the cultural dialogue. The African-American experience has always been tied to those topics. In...
View ArticleI Question Whether We Have Learned ‘Citizenship’ in Our Generation
About a year ago a dear friend gave me a copy of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book “Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America” by Gilbert King. The 2012...
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