BRIAN FELTMAN AND ROGER SMITH

3:00– 4:00 PM | WEDNESDAYS | AUGUST 5 THROUGH 26

Georgia’s Black servicemen and their sacrifices in Europe gave lie to the discrimination and violence they suffered in the Jim Crow South. This series highlights the Carswell Grove Massacre and the Red Summer of 1919. It also introduces Eugene Bullard, the Georgian jazz musician who chose freedom in France over racism at home; and Moina Bella Michael, the white Georgia poet who memorialized World War I and established the red poppy as the War’s remembrance flower.

Brian Feltman has been a professor of history at Georgia Southern University since 2012. He specializes in the history of the two World Wars, as well as the Holocaust. He earned his baccalaureate and master’s degrees from Clemson

University and his PhD from The Ohio State University.

Roger Smith is the founding director of The Learning Center, where he frequently teaches in areas of history and literature. In earlier careers, he was a classroom teacher, a museum educator, and director of education at The Georgia

Historical Society.