Dr. Robert Canida II, the University of Lynchburg’s chief inclusive excellence officer, will give a lecture at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, May 13, at Jones Memorial Library in Lynchburg.
Canida’s presentation, “Resilience, Resolve, and Rising Up: Lynchburg’s Voices for Civil Rights,” will examine how local leaders in the Civil Rights Movement “addressed pressing issues and how the ‘community’ came together to speak up and demand equality and justice” — work that “served and continues to serve as the vehicle to challenge actions that prevent freedom for all!”
The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is part of Jones Memorial’s John D. Owen Jr. History Series. Jones Memorial, a genealogy and local history library, is located at 2311 Memorial Ave., not far from the University of Lynchburg.
