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Center for Florida History welcomes
Florida historian Robert Cassanello

LAKELAND, Fla. (March 21, 2002) - The Center for Florida History at Florida Southern College will host Dr. Robert Cassanello for an afternoon lecture on Wednesday, March 27 at 2 p.m. in the Hollis Room on campus. Dr. Cassanello's topic is "Rethinking the Streetcar Boycott Movement in Florida 1900-1908."

A National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellow, Dr. Cassanello is currently at work on book entitled, "The Great Migration and the Making of Modern Florida, 1870-1920."

Cassanello was born in Queens, New York. He lived most of his life in Hollywood, Florida and attended Florida Atlantic University from 1991-1995. He continued his education at Florida State University, earning his Ph.D. in 2000. He is currently an assistant professor at Miles College in Birmingham, Alabama.

The lecture is free and open to the public. For further information about this event or the Center for Florida History's Florida Lecture Series, please contact Dr. James M. Denham at (863) 680-4312 or visit our website at http://www.flsouthern.edu/flhistory/index.htm.

About Florida Southern College
Florida Southern is a four-year, private, co-educational liberal arts college affiliated with the United Methodist Church. The college offers more than 40 undergraduate majors and a master of business administration degree accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Located in Lakeland, Fla., the college is home to the largest, single-site collection of Frank Lloyd Wright architecture in the world.

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