Wednesday, July 10, 2019, 6:00 PM African American Library at the Gregory School 1300 Victor Street, Houston, TX 77019 2nd Floor, Reading Room Panelists: Naomi Mitchell Carrier, Executive Director of the Texas Center for African American Living History (TCAALH); Angela Holder, Professor of History at Houston Community College and descendant of Corporal Jesse Moore, Company I, 24th Infantry; Vinod Hopson, dramaturge, artist, and historian; and Jefferson Pinder, artist. Race and Riots: The Legacy of Camp Logan will provide context for Jefferson Pinder's projects Fire and Movement and Red Summer Road Trip. Race has been an element of many riots in American history, including the riot that followed the assault of an Army Sergeant in the Third Battalion of the 24th Infantry while stationed at Camp Logan. This panel presentation will explore the history of the Camp Logan Uprising in Houston and its aftermath which included, at that time, the largest murder trial in U.S. history, as well as the legacy of the 24th Infantry. Fire and Movement is a newly commissioned public performance by interdisciplinary Chicago-based artist Jefferson Pinder. The artist and a trained group of performers will retrace the route and narrative of the 1917 Camp Logan Uprising (also known as the “Houston […]