Howard University School of Law

Brown@50:  HUSL, NAACP, LDF, & Smithsonian Sponsored Symposium and Town Hall Meeting on

Race & Rights: Conference and Town Hall Meeting

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February 20-21, 2004

Panel I:  Before Brown

Panel II: The Aftermath

Panel III:  Intergenerational Town Hall Meeting

Before Brown: Freedom Struggles, White Privilege, and Segregation

Facilitator: Pete Daniel, NMAH
Panelists:

Reginald Hildebrand, UNC, "Education at the Dawn of Freedom: Competing Views"
Frank Wu, HUSL, “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”

Brown and Its Aftermath: Desegregation, Resegregation, and the Shifting Political-Sociocultural Landscapes

Facilitator: Genna Rae McNeil, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Panelists:

J. Clay Smith, HUSL, “Roads to Brown and Roads After Brown”
Ron Walters, Political Science, U. of Md., “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, U. of Wisc., “From Brown to Grutter; Toward an Inclusive Vision of Racial Equality”

Howard University School of Law Town Hall Meeting:

‘An Intergenerational Conversation About Brown v. Board of Education’

Facilitator: Professor Charles Ogletree, Harvard University Law School

Panelists:

Jaclyn Cole, HUSL Student
Daniel Collins, HUSL Student
Brumit De Laine
Marisa Demeo
Wade Henderson
Hank Jones, HUSL Professor
Alana Murray
John Stokes
Craig Thompson
Michael Wegner
Lia Wright-Teconi