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R.H. Flowers Lecture

R.H. Flowers Lecture

  • Date: September 13th, 2018
  • Location:
  • Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
  • Cost: No Ticket Required

Office of the President, Office of Diversity Affairs, Office of Development

This event opens “Remembering, Rejoicing, Reflecting: A Centennial Celebration of Rachel Helen Flowers, 1918-2018”. The lecture reflects on the life and activism of Rachel Helen Flowers, 1900-1988, and will be given by Christina Thomas, Messiah College, Class of 2014 (History). During her time at Messiah, Thomas conducted research on the institution's first African American student, Rachel Flowers, and the Flowers family while working for the Office of Diversity Affairs. Her interest in the Flowers family continued as Thomas pursued her graduate studies in history. Thomas received her Master of Arts in History (2016) from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and received the Patterson Paper Prize for her thesis entitled, “ ‘Our Children’s Children Live Forever’: The Educational Activism of the Sawyer-Flowers-Wilson Family in America from 1866 to 1986”.  Thomas is currently a doctoral student at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.  Her interests include Black feminist thought, biography, and nineteenth and twentieth century African American history.