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Commemorating Brown

by Black Issues , May 20, 2004

Commemorating Brown
This is a list of events from selected institutions leading up to the 50th anniversary of Brown V. Board of Education

• Bucknell University
 12/03-4/04: "Brown at 50," a symposium celebrating the 50th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision

•Harvard University Law School
 4/13/04: panel discussion: Reflections on the Jurisprudence of Justice Thurgood Marshall: A View from His Law Clerks;
 4/15/04: panel: Harvard Law Review Symposium — Brown at 50: From Social Justice to Diversity;
 4/16/04: Brown v. Board of Education and its Aftermath: lecture — Brown and the Montgomery Bus Boycott; lecture —  Prosecution of Defendants of the 16th St. Baptist Church Bombing; keynote address — Reflections on Brown

•Hood College
 3/18/04: The Role of the Individual in Brown: Thurgood Marshall; Kansas: The Unlikely Lead Case; keynote address and book signing, Dr. Waldo Martin, Jr., Brown v. Board of Education: A Brief History with Documents
 3/19/04: Keynote address: Genna Rae McNeil; Frederick Perspectives on Brown, Part I; Connections between Local and National Desegregation Efforts; keynote address: James Patterson; Frederick Perspectives on Brown, Part II, From Hagiography to Historiography: A New Generation of Brown Scholarship; The Color of Justice;
 3/21/04: Theatrical Performance by Hood College Students

•Howard University School of Law
 1/21/04: The Lawyers Who Defeated Separate But Equal, five of the original lawyers who litigated or participated in the Brown case will offer their personal reflections on that historic period;
 2/26/04: Keynote Address: Vernon Jordan, Esq., Lazard Freres and Company;
 3/25/04: Inaugural Nabrit Lecture Speaker, Prof. Charles Ogletree, Harvard Law Professor

•Indiana University – Bloomington
 3/04- 4/04: Film screenings of "Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years 1954-1965"; lecture – "Brown v. Board of Education: What We Gained, What We're Losing, What We Can Do," by Dr. Gary Orfield, Harvard School of Education; lecture — renowned civil rights litigator Alvin Chambliss

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