A Brief History of the Civil Rights Movement in Sarasota

A Brief History of the Civil Rights Movement in Sarasota

with Judge Charles E. Williams

Presented by Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI)

Friday, April 24, 2-3:30 pm

Sarasota Art Museum, Ringling College Museum Campus, 1001 S. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota, FL 34236

$15 | 941-309-5111 • olliringlingcollege.org

Although not as well-known historically as other cities and towns during the modern Civil Rights Movement, Sarasota had its own version of what occurred in Selma, Birmingham, and other iconic civil rights battlegrounds. Taken in the context of the three landmark civil rights cases that defined citizenship for African-Americans in this country, Plessy v. Ferguson, Dred Scott, and Brown v. Board of Education, this session will examine the impact these cases had on the African-American people who lived in Sarasota County during these turbulent times and its continuing impact today.