Brown@50 Fulfilling the Promise |
Howard University School of Law |
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Friday, February 20, and Saturday, February 21, 2004
National Museum of American History, Behring Center
Processional: “We Have Come This Far By Faith”
Welcomes and Greetings
Howard University School of Law: Kurt Schmoke, Dean
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund: Elaine R. Jones, President and Director-Counsel
NAACP: Lorraine Miller, President, NAACP Branch, Washington, DC
Music
Keynote: Vincent Harding, Iliff Theological Seminary, Denver
Music
Howard University Chapel Choir, Paul Gatling, director
Reception
Facilitator: Pete Daniel, NMAH
Panelists:
Reginald Hildebrand, UNC, "Education at the Dawn of Freedom: Competing Views"
Frank Wu, Howard Law School, “Bridge Building Through Brown: Asian Americans and Equal Opportunity”
Linda Williams, UMCP, “The Constraint of Race”
Raymond Gavins, Duke University and Woodrow Wilson Fellow, “Remembering Jim Crow: African American Life in the Segregated South”
Facilitator: Genna Rae McNeil, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Panelists:
J. Clay Smith, “Roads to Brown and Roads After Brown”
Ron Walters, Political Science, University of Maryland, “The 1954 Decision and Conservative Reaction.”
Diane Pinderhughes, U of Ill, Wilson Institute, “The 1954 Decision and the Civil Rights Legislation of the 1960s”
Linda Greene, University of Wisconsin, “From Brown to Grutter; Toward an Inclusive Vision of Racial Equality”
Facilitator: Professor Charles Ogletree, Harvard University Law School
Panelists:
Jaclyn Cole, HUSL Student
Daniel Collins, HUSL Student
Brumit De Laine
Marisa Demeo
Hank Jones, Prof. Howard University School of Law
Alana Murray
Wade Henderson
John Stokes
Craig Thompson
Michael Wegner
Lia Wright-Teconi
Faculty Advisors: Professors Homer La Rue and Carmia Caesar
Chair: April Frazier, Howard University Law School, Class of 2004