Lunchtime Lectures in May
West Baton Rouge Museum 845 North Jefferson Avenue, Port Allen, Louisiana 70767
The West Baton Rouge Museum offers three of its popular Lunchtime Lectures this month. All events are free and begin at noon.
May 9: Professor Molly Mitchell will share information on the Freedom of the Move project, a collaborative online initiative devoted to "fugitives/self-liberators" from slavery in North America. The online database houses tens of thousands of advertisements placed by enslavers seeking to recapture self-liberating Africans and African Americans. This lecture is presented in conjunction with the new Through Darkness to Light: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad exhibit, opening May 26.
May 15: Authors Catharine Savage Brosman and Olivia McNeely Pass will present a lecture and book signing on their book Louisiana Poets: A Literary Guide—a survey and assessment of forty poets from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
May 22: Author Bryan Wagner will discuss and sign his book The Life and Legend of Bras Coupé: The Fugitive Slave Who Fought the Law, Ruled the Swamp, Danced at Congo Square, Invented Jazz, and Died for Love. This lecture is presented in conjunction with the new Through Darkness to Light: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad exhibit, opening May 26.
Google
Yahoo
Outlook
ical
