AMH Brown Bag Lecture: “The Importance of the Oral Interview: Everyone Has a Story To Tell” with Corey Rogers

Corey Rogers is a native of Augusta, Georgia and a proud 1992 graduate of Davidson Fine Arts Magnet School. He earned a B.A. in History from South Carolina State University and a M.A. in History from Georgia Southern University. From 1999-2004 he taught in the Richmond County Public School System. From 1999-2019 he taught History at Paine College. For 19 years he served as the Historian at the Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History. In more recent years he has served as a voting member of the Public Art Advisory Panel for the Greater Augusta Arts Council and continues to work closely with the Arts Council through the Golden Blocks Public Art Project. He is the former Chairman of the Georgia Historical Society Marker Review Committee. In January 2022 he was elected to the Board of Directors for Destination Augusta and in January 2023 he was elected to the Board of Directors for Historic Augusta, Inc.

Currently he teaches a course at USC Aiken and is working on several historical initiatives in Augusta that include the Justine and Isaiah “Ike” Washington Endowment Fund and legacy quilts, a partnership between Augusta University and the Laney Museum and the Golden Blocks Legends Comic Book Series, a partnership between Augusta University, the Laney Museum and several Augusta artists. In 2023 Mr. Rogers was elected President of the Augusta African American Historical Society. In April of 2023 he was named Executive Director of the Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History.

We hope you will the Augusta Museum of History this Wednesday, May 15th for the Brown Bag Lecture on “The Importance Of The Oral Interview: Everyone Has A Story To Tell”. Doors open at 12:00pm and the lecture starts promptly at 12:30pm, AMH Members are free to attend, Non-Members are $5.00