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Following
is a partial list of events commemorating the 50th anniversary of
Brown v. Board of Education.
To add an event to this list, please email info@firelightmedia.com.
Elderhostel: Journey of a Nation: Retracing the Legacy of the
Civil Rights Movement
Elderhostel is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing
extraordinary learning adventures for people 55 and over. The Journey
of a Nation Program OF Elderhostel travels to the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, which is devoting the 2003/04 academic
year to commemorating Brown v. Board of Education.
For more
info, call 1-877-426-8056 or visit http://www.elderhostel.org/Programs
NAACP Education Summit of the States: Assessing the Price,
Identifying the Promise, and Mapping the Course for Progress
Topeka, Kansas
Capitol Plaza Hotel
For info, call (501) 217-9994 or visit
http://www.naacp.org/BvBE/may14event.shtml
Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education
National Museum of American History, Smithsonian
Washington, D.C.
The Museum marks the opening of the exhibition Separate Is Not
Equal: Brown v. Board of Education with special music, docent-guided
tours, and films. The documentaries, Simple Justice and With All
Deliberate Speed: The Legacy of Brown v. Board, will be introduced
by filmmakers Avon Kirkland and Sharon Baker. 12-4 p.m. First Floor,
Taylor Gallery.
Contact http://www.americanhistory.si.edu/brown/index.html.
Tavis Smiley Presents in partnership with the NAACP
Legal Defense and Educational Fund:
Unfinished Agenda: 50th Anniversary Brown v. Board of Education
8:00am to 5:00pm
The National Theater; Washington, DC
Unfinished Agenda: 50th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education,
offers a multicultural perspective on the future of Brown in America,
focusing on the issues of today, including Affirmative Action, bussing,
charter schools, the recently passed 'No Child Left Behind' Act,
and the current state of education in America's public school system.
Free to the Public. For more info, www.tavistalks.com
Our Journey: School Desegregation
in Champaign-Urbana is
a 60-minute radio documentary produced by Franklin Middle School
students Tamika Lee, Veronica Martin, Jessica Austin, Deanna Carr,
Yakera Barbee, Markisha Motton, and Tiera Campbell. The program
weaves together stories about school, family, church and civic life
in Champaign-Urbana as told by African Americans between the ages
of 40 and 91. Our Journey reveals the segregation of everyday life
in the twin cities and the educational expectations of African Americans
across generations.
Airs 5pm on AM-580, also at www.will.uiuc.edu.
Repeated 6pm, Monday, May 17 May 17, 2004
Commemorative Gala
On the evening of the 50th anniversary of the Brown v. Board
of Education landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision, May 17, 2004,
the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP),
Howard University, and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund,
Inc. (LDF) will honor civil rights pioneers and leaders who participated
in the Brown decision, along with contemporary luminaries who have
advanced the promise of Brown. The event will be held at Constitution
Hall, 311 18th Street, N.W. in Washington D.C. For more info, visit
http://www.brownmatters.org/events
Opening of Exhibit
Marching Towards Justice: The History of the 14th Amendment to the
U.S. Constitution
11am
Howard University School of Law Library
2900 Van Ness Street
N.W,
Washington, D.C. 20008
Keynote Speaker: Hon. Damon J. Keith, 6th Circuit Court of Appeals
For further info, call (202) 806-8000 or visit www.brownat50.org
This award-winning exhibit will be on display at the Howard University
School of Law Library beginning on May 17, 2004 through the end of July
2004. The exhibit chronicles the life of the African Americans from 1619
until 1957, three years after the Brown decision. The exhibit is on loan
from the Honorable Damon J. Keith Law Collection of African American Legal
History.
Brown Birthday Cake Reception
6:00-7:30pm
North Carolina State University
African American Cultural Center
Witherspoon Student Center Building
Raleigh, NC
We will light the candles and cut the cake in honor of May 17, 1954.
Excerpts will be read from the writings of Charles Hamilton Huston, Justice
Thurgood Marshall, Chief Justice Earl Warren, and others from the era.
For info, call (919) 515-1451
Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site Grand Opening
11:00 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
1515 SE Monroe Street, Topeka, KS 66612
For further info visit
http://www.nps.gov/brvb/pphtml/eventdetail10643.html
Brown Plus 50: A Renewed Agenda for Social Justice
Featuring programs on historical perspectives, legacies, simple
justice/complicated practice.
New York University, New York
The Metro Center for Urban Education
82 Washington Square East, Suite 72
New York, NY 10003
Call (212) 998-5100, or visit
http://www.nyu.edu/education/metrocenter/brownplus/home.html
Marching Toward Justice: The History of the 14th Amendment
A Tribute to Thurgood Marshall
Kansas Judicial Center, 301 W. 10th St.
Topeka, Kansas
The Marching Toward Justice Exhibit was created by the Keith
Collection at Wayne State University to inform the public about
the importance of the 14th Amendment and our ongoing quest to realize
the high ideals of the United States Declaration of Independence.
This exhibit illustrates our country's past promotion of justice
and equality while condoning enslavement and oppression. That African
Americans were long denied due process and equal protection under
the law remains a historical dichotomy in a country of democratic
ideals.
Call 785-234-1030 or 800-235-1030 or visit www.brownvboard.org/coalition
North Carolina Bar Association Brown v. Board of Education Commemoration
NC State McKimmon Center
A daylong program in recognition of the 50th Anniversary of the
Supreme Court's landmark decision. The highlight of the morning
program will be a reargument of Brown before a "Supreme Court",
composed of federal circuit judges and three former Chief Justices
of the North Carolina Supreme Court. Professor Jack Greenberg, former
Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, has agreed to
serve as the luncheon keynote speaker.
For info, call 919-677-0561
From Desegregation to Diversity
Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues
The convention of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues
will explore implications of societal diversity from a research, social
policy, and social action perspective.
For information, visit http://www.spssi.org/
or call (202) 675-6956
NAACP 95th Annual National Convention
Beyond Brown - Promise and Progress
July 10-15, 2004
Philadelphia, PA
For more info, visit www.naacp.org
With All Deliberate Speed: Social Justice and the Future of Public
Education
National Coalition of Education Activists Conference
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
For info, visit http://www.nceaonline.org/
Reargument of Brown v. Board of Education
American Bar Association Annual Meeting
Atlanta, GA
For more information, visit www.abanet.org/publiced
Brown and the Law of Other Nations
Columbia Law School
Honorable Arthur Chaskalson, Chief Justice, The Constitutional Court of
South Africa; Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice, Supreme
Court of the United States.
For more information, visit
www.law.columbia.edu/news_events/2004/brownvboard
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