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Commemorating Brown

by Black Issues , May 20, 2004

•University of Vermont
 4/04: Two-day Symposium: Looking Back, Looking Forward: The Unfinished Business Of Brown v. The Board Of Education
 4/9/04: Workshops: "The Unfinished Business of Brown: Preparing Educators to Help Fulfill the Promise"; "Shaping Hispanic Identity: The U.S. Agenda"; "Our Reality: A Promise Deferred No More…"

•Washburn University School of Law
 11/1/03: Continuing Legal Education Program Brown v. Board of Education Revisited: 50th Anniversary Symposium: Perspective on Brown: The Historian's Point of View; From Desegregation to Affirmative Action: The Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education; Perspective on Brown: An Irish Point of View; Personal Perspective: A Native Kansan and African American Relates the Impact of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka on his Educational and Professional Journey; Perspective on Brown: A First Nation Point of View; Brown, Hernandez, and the Desegregative Ideal: Higher Education and Racial College Identity; Perspective on Brown: A Northern European Point of View

•Washington and Lee University
 3/20/04: Student panelists: Segregated Higher Education in the U.S. Today, Historically Black Colleges and Universities Past, Present, and Future; School Segregation in the U.S. Before and After Brown v Board: Just the Facts; Miscegenation in the Civil Rights Movement; Milliken v. Bradley and White Flight in Detroit; School Integration in Norfolk: One city's struggles; Documentary film "The Intolerable Burden" followed by lecture and discussion;
 3/21/04: Lecture: Brown and the Discourse of Cultural Pluralism; Brown v. Board of Education: Law or Politics?; The Forgotten Ones: Prince Edward County and Brown v. Board; Lecture: Acting White, Acting Black or Not Acting at All" Confronting the Ogbu hypothesis about Black academic underachievement; Scholars Panel and Wrap-up; Optional Break Away Discussion Groups 



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