The Murray Hall Civil Rights Speaker Series presents a discussion of alumnus Dr. Lehman's research of slavery and segregation in the United States, his campaign to rename a university building after a student of color, and the role of public history in shaping local communities. Dr. Christopher P. Lehman is the chair of the Ethnic, Gender, & Women's Studies Department at St. Cloud State University in St. Cloud, Minnesota. He is the first African American graduate of Oklahoma State University's Honors Program, and he has been a summer visiting fellow at Harvard University. His writings have been published through the University of Massachusetts, the Minnesota Historical Society, and Oxford University.