By Timothy Fanning When Raymond Arsenault arrived in 1980, most of the tiny school that townspeople called “USF Bayboro” sat on 11 acres jutting out into Bayboro Harbor. The financial
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For USFSP history professor Ray Arsenault, 2011 has had its ups and its major ups. He’s been on “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” and not just any episode. Oprah did a
On Sept. 10, 2011, “Freedom Riders”—the film based on USF St. Petersburg history professor Ray Arsenault’s 2006 book “Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice”—won three Emmy awards.
The Freedom Riders was a movement that forced national attention on civil rights in 1961 by testing federal interstate travel integration laws in the South. The riders were beaten, bombed