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Nov. WBLA Business Meeting & Luncheon Info.

Thu, Nov 09

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Jacksonville

This month's guest speaker is Nat Glover.

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Nov. WBLA Business Meeting & Luncheon Info.
Nov. WBLA Business Meeting & Luncheon Info.

Time & Location

Nov 09, 2023, 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM EST

Jacksonville, 3611 St Johns Ave, Jacksonville, FL 32205, USA

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About the event

WBLA's November guest speaker is Nat Glover, former JSO Sheriff, past President Edward Waters College and now author.

Striving for Justice: A Black Sheriff in the Deep South by Nat Glover is the powerful story of a young Black man born into a racist environment and deeply underprivileged circumstances who became the first Black sheriff of a major city in the Deep South since the Reconstruction era.

Nathaniel Glover was born in 1943, in segregated Jacksonville, Florida. At seventeen he unknowingly headed into an angry white mob and the Ku Klux Klan attacking young black protestors staging a sit-in at a downtown whites-only lunch counter. Known as “Ax Handle Saturday,” this harrowing encounter with racism would commit him to a lifetime of fighting for justice.

Glover joined the Jacksonville Police Department in 1966. He was named Police Officer of the Year four times, was promoted to detective, rose to sergeant,…

Tickets

  • WBLA's Nov. Biz Mtg. & Lunch

    Ticket price is for meeting & Lunch (salad, pizza, beverage & dessert). Price is $15 for Members and $17 for Non-members.

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