

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: 2025-26 FLORIDA HISTORY LECTURE SERIES - VERNON BURTON
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 19 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Event Description**: “Race” is America’s most salient topic today, and the Supreme Court probably a close second. Vernon Burton combines these topics to analyze “race” as a concept and how our court system, especially the U.S. Supreme Court, helped create the idea of different races. Using Florida as a lens, the program will address the Supreme Court’s involvement with Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and modern-day problems such as affirmative action, criminal justice, and discrimination.

Vernon Burton is the Judge Matthew J. Perry Distinguished Chair of History at Clemson University. He is the author of more than twenty authored or edited books, including his most recent Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court, co-authored with Armand Derfner, and The Age of Lincoln.

“We are delighted to welcome Vernon Burton, one of America’s eminent historians, back to campus as this year’s Robert and Rose Stahl Lecturer in Criminal Justice. Dr. Burton’s topic is timely and especially relevant today, as our country strives to fulfill its promise of equal rights for all."

---James M. Denham is Professor of History and Director of the Lawton Chiles Center for Florida History at Florida Southern College
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Lakeland
- **state**: FL
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Branscomb Memorial Auditorium: Florida Southern College
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- **full address**: Branscomb Memorial Auditorium: Florida Southern College, 1100 JOHNSON AVE,Lakeland, Florida, United States

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- **organizer**: Florida Southern College Bookstore (https://allevents.in/org/florida-southern-college-bookstore/27467146)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Thu, 19 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Branscomb Memorial Auditorium: Florida Southern College, 1100 JOHNSON AVE,Lakeland, Florida, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Florida Southern College Bookstore
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