Join Leon County for the first Library Lecture series of 2019 on Monday, May 13 for, “African-American Ascension: The Rise of The Black Middle Class 1865 to 1935,” at the Meek-Eaton Black Archives on the campus of Florida A&M University. Dr. Nashid Madyun will take a look at the fleeting consciousness of the Historically African, the enslaved, the enfranchised, and the caste and class residue of separate but equal. This lecture is a part of the Annual Festival of Freedom commemorating the first reading of the Emancipation Proclamation in Tallahassee at the Knott House on Park Avenue.