This event is now available online. Join us for a talk by Larry O. Rivers (Associate Professor of History, University of West Georgia) on his new book James Hudson: Forgotten Forerunner in the Crusade for Civil Rights (2024) followed by a panel discussion about the discipline of history with him and his father, Larry E. Rivers (Distinguished Professor of History, Florida A&M University), author of Slavery in Florida (2000), For a Great and Grand Purpose: The Beginnings of the AMEZ Church in Florida, 1864-1905 (2004), and Rebels and Runaways (2012). Also online is a new oral history interview with Larry E. Rivers, conducted by the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program as part of its initiative to document the Underground Railroad, supervised by Ronan Hart.
Lecture by Larry O. Rivers, James Hudson: Forgotten Forerunner in the Crusade for Civil Rights, held February 20, 2025 at the George A. Smathers Library, University of Florida
Oral History Interview with Larry E. Rivers, February 20, 2025
Books by Larry Omar Rivers:
James Hudson: Forgotten Forerunner in the Crusade for Civil Rights (University Press of Florida, 2024)
Books by Larry Eugene Rivers:
Slavery in Florida: Territorial Days to Emancipation (University Press of Florida, 2000)
Rebels and Runaways: Slave Resistance in Nineteenth Century Florida (University of Illinois Press, 2012)
Father James Page: An Enslaved Preachers Climb to Freedom (John Hopkins University Press, 2021)
Books by Larry Eugene Rivers and Canter Brown Jr.
For a Great and Grand Purpose: The Beginnings of the AMEZ Church in Florida, 1864-1905 (University Press of Florida, 2004)
The Varieties of Women’s Experiences: Portraits of Southern Women in the Post–Civil War Century (University Press of Florida, 2010)
Mary Edwards Bryan: Her Early Life and Works (University Press of Florida, 2015)