Events

Discussion featuring Bernard Lafayette, civil rights activist from Tampa who was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement and participated in the Freedom Rides in 1961, and Ray Arsenault, USF St. Petersburg professor and award-winning author of Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice.

Join us for a Florida Blue Community Conversation about the history of the Civil Rights Movement in Tampa.

Emeritus Associate Professor of History at the University of Florida Dr. Geoffrey Giles will discuss the subject of the persecution of homosexuals during the Nazi regime. Presented in partnership with the Holocaust & Genocide Study Center at the USF Tampa Library.

At the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, on November 2, Dr. Julie Buckner Armstrong, Associate Professor of English at USF St. Petersburg, will speak as part of the Contemporaries lunchtime lecture series.

Hava Holzhauer, Anti-Defamation League Florida Regional Director, will talk about antisemitism in Europe leading up to the Holocaust, comparing and contrasting it with antisemitism today in Europe and the United States.

Jewish instrumentalists and composers were at the very center of music performed in Germany in the 1930s, but as the Third Reich was rising, their music became increasingly isolated, and ultimately banned.

Jewish instrumentalists and composers were at the very center of music performed in Germany in the 1930s, but as the Third Reich was rising, their music became increasingly isolated, and ultimately banned.