Date: 2014-03-13
Lifelong Learning Lecture Series: The Assault (at Main Library)
7:00pm — Guest Speaker: Dr. Gary Hylander, Visiting Professor, Framingham State University. Early in the afternoon of May 22, 1856, South Carolina Congressman Preston Brooks strode into the Senate and began beating Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner with a gold-topped walking cane, an act of retaliation that destroyed any pretense of civility between the North and South. *** Refreshments *** Held in Costin Room of Framingham Public Library, 49 Lexington St., Framingham, MA.
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