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
•Macalester College
2/13/04: Keynote address: “Fifty Years Since Brown v. Board of Education: Where Are We Now?” by Professor Kathleen Cleaver
2/14/04: Panels — “Historical Perspectives on Brown v. Board of Education,” “The Challenges of Black Students at Predominantly White Colleges,” “Black Artistry Fifty Years After Brown v. Board of Education: Image, Message, and Meaning”; Theatrical Performance — “The Diva Daughters Dupree”;
2/15/04: Panels — “Post Civil Rights: Public Policy and Affirmative Action,” “Complicating Community Definitions of Blackness in Hostile Territories”
