Image: On Sept. 17, Constitution Day, FRC residents met with Dr. Ehlers to watch the lecture “On Juneteenth: History, Memory, the Present and the Future,” by Dr. Annette Gordon-Reed of Harvard University. Following the presentation we gathered to discuss the critical themes that the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hemingses of Monticello and On Juneteenth raised: the events leading up to General Granger's arrival in Galveston in 1865; the continuing legacy of Black disenfranchisement in the Jim Crow South; and Dr. Gordon-Reed's reflections on her own childhood in Texas in the years following Brown v. Board of Education. Our thanks to SPIA and to Dr. Gordon-Reed for her excellent Constitution Day lecture.
