In honor of Black History Month Mr. Corsair will make special appearances at the following Lake County Libraries.
Thursday, February 12, 2009 at 2:00 p.m. at The Puryear Bldg. in Groveland, sponsored by the Marion Baysinger Memorial County Library.
Thursday, February 19, 2009 at 9:00 a.m. at the MLK Center in Mount Dora, sponsored by the W.t. Bland Public Library.
Tuesday, Febrauary, 24, 2009 at 2:00 p.m. at the Lady Lake Community Bldg., sponsored by the Lady Lake Public Library.
Mr. Corsair will discuss the complexities of an important, yet often overlooked chapter of Florida’s tumulous race relations in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
The Groveland rape case made international headlines and forced America to deal with the disturbing reality of “guilty until proven guilty” when a white teenage bride accused four African American men of kidnapping and raping her.
Corsair examines the far-reaching impact of the “legal lynching”, which led to the Supreme Court ruling that rape was no longer a death-penalty offense.
In dozens of presentations to school children, Corsair examines an injustice rivalring Scottsboro, and in the process teaches powerful lessons of acceptance and tolerance.
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