Commemorating Brown: this is a list of events from selected institutions leading up to the 50th anniversary of Brown V. Board of Education

Black Issues in Higher Education, May 20, 2004

* 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;

4/15/04: 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"

* North Carolina Central University

2/11/04: Discussion--"Segregated Education: Teachers, Principals and Students Discuss Their Experiences Under Segregation";

2/20/04: Teacher Education Summit: Reflecting Back, Projecting Forward: Brown v. Board of Education to No Child Left Behind

* North Carolina State University

10/18/03: Heritage Day: 50/50, workshops in African dance, step-team choreography, modeling poise, and gospel choir techniques. Other activities include storytelling, face painting, balloons, jewelry making, and mask making, and showcase celebration;

3/22/04: Video and Heritage Lecture: "Desegregation in Durham 1954-1975";

5/21/04: N.C. Bar Association: Brown v. Board of Education Commemoration, a re-argument of Brown before a "Supreme Court" and a panel followed by a breakout session

* Ohio University

5/13/04: Brown Bag Film Series: "Equity Under the Law: The Lost Generation of Prince Edward County," "Lemon Grove (Mexican Americans in California)," "The Road to Brown" and "Where Do We Go From Here?";

6/17/04: Panel DiscuSSion and Lunch: "What Lead to Brown v. Board of Education," "The Declaration of Independence and Brown," "Activism Ten Years Later" and "Where Do We Go From Here."

* University of Iowa

10/3/03: Lecture--"From Measured Inclusion to Measured Exclusion: The Contradictory Experiences of African Americans and U.S. Indigenous Peoples";

11/14/03: Lecture--"Colonial (Counter) Inscriptions: 19th-Century Captives of the American Indian Assimilation Policy";

4/2/04: Lecture--"Freedom Was All They Had to Begin With: Civil Rights in the Age of Emancipation"

* University of Illinois-Urbana at Champaign

4/16/04: Lecture--A Talk Back With Choreographers Karen Love, Reggie Wilson joined by Ralph Lemon. "Brown v. Board of Ed and the Creative Process: How Contemporary Artists Imagine Their Rights, Abilities, and Access in Contemporary America";

4/10-5/15/04: Exhibit: "A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste: A History of the UNCF and its Advertising Campaign";

* University of Maryland

4/16/04: Symposium: "With All Deliberate Speed: Considering Brown v. Board of Education Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, a day-long community/scholar dialogue;

4/22/04: Silent Covenants: Brown v. Board of Education and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform;

4/29/04: The Decision: Brown v. Board of Education Revisited. A verbatim re-enactment of the arguments before the Supreme Court

* University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

1/12/04: Opening Lecture, MLK Symposium: "A Conversation with the Brown Sisters"

2/04: Book Discussion: "Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?" : And Other Conversations About Race;