Join OLLI at UAH in a special anniversary celebration, Twenty-five Years of Lifelong Learning at UAH!
Wayne Flynt, Alabama Historian, Author, and Professor Emeritus at Auburn University will be the first speaker in the series.
Between 1933 and 1977, the South contained one-fourth of the nation's population, one-third of its poverty, and produced 40% of its winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. What does this say about the region and especially Alabama?
Dr. Wayne Flynt was born Oct. 4, 1940, in Pontotoc, Mississippi. He grew up primarily in Alabama, attended Samford University as a ministerial student, and double majored in History and Speech. Flynt attended graduate school at Florida State University, receiving his Ph.D. in 1965 in American History.
During his 40-year teaching career at Samford and Auburn universities, Flynt won 18 teaching awards, including top teaching honors at Samford, the College of Liberal Arts and the graduate faculty at Auburn. Dr. Flynt authored fourteen books, including his most well-known, Poor but Proud: Alabama's Poor Whites and Alabama in the Twentieth Century, and he co-wrote Alabama: A History of a Deep South State, both of which were nominated for Pulitzer Prizes. He has served as a community activist for decades championing for the socio-economically disadvantaged and for education reform.
Please join us in this anniversary speaker series which is free and open to the public. For more information visit Osher.uah.edu/25.