Sep 03, 2023 10:30 AM —  12:00 PM From the Cell Block to the Ivory Tower | Christopher Cameron | Weekly Sunday Gathering —  The Montrose Center 401 Branard St #107, Houston, TX 77006

Christopher Cameron is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He received his BA in History from Keene State College and his M.A. and Ph.D. in American History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research and teaching interests include early American history, the history of slavery and abolition, and African American religious and intellectual history. Cameron is the author of To Plead Our Own Cause: African Americans in Massachusetts and the Making of the Antislavery Movement and Black Freethinkers: A History of African American Secularism. He is also the co-editor of New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition and Race, Religion, and Black Lives Matter: Essays on a Moment and a Movement. He is currently writing a history of African American Unitarian Universalists from the mid-18th century to the Civil Rights era.

Musician Bio :

Alexandre “Sasha” Loukachine- Originally from Riga, Latvia. Attended the Clark Terry Institute. Longtime jazz musician in Houston. Corey Dozier- Went to HSPVA. Graduated from the New School, NYC. Jimmy K Smith- Originally from Tulsa Oklahoma. Graduated from Texas State University. Former orchestra guitarist for Royal Caribbean Cruise Line