Brown v. Board of Education ruling
The Law School is hosting a conference in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision of 1954, which ended segregation in public schools.
Titled "The Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education: Reflections on the Last 50 Years," the event will be held Thursday-Saturday, April 1-3, at the Law School, 127 Wall St.
The conference will bring together scholars, practitioners and educators, as well as those intimately involved with the landmark decision, in order to commemorate Brown, discuss its legacy and limitations, and explore its implications for the future of democracy.
This conference features panels titled "Brown 101"; "The Road to Brown: Law and Politics in the 1940s and 1950s"; "What Brown v. Board of Education Should Have Said"; "Beyond Brown: Courts, Congress and Civil Rights"; "Equal But Separate? The Shape of Public Education in America Today"; "Affirmative Action: Where Are We Now?"; and "Brown as Icon: Discussing the Largeness of Brown."
The opening address will be presented by Elaine R. Jones, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, on Thursday, April 1, at 8 p.m.
There will be a lunch discussion on April 3 at 12:30 p.m. titled "What Brown Means to Me." Participants will include Melba Pattillo Beals, author and member of the Little Rock Nine, and Cheryl Brown Henderson, president of the Brown Foundation for Educational Equity, Excellence and Research. Following the lunch, Brown litigators Robert Carter and Constance Baker Motley will give their "Perspectives from the Frontline."
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton '73 J.D. will give closing remarks for the conference on April 3 at 4:30 p.m. Other conference speakers will include Lee Bollinger, president of Columbia University; Kathleen Neal Cleaver '84 B.A., '89 J.D. of the Yale Law School; Randall Kennedy '82 J.D. of Harvard Law School; Richard Kluger, author; Catharine MacKinnon '77 J.D., '87 Ph.D. of the University of Michigan Law School; Reginald Mayo, New Haven Public Schools Superintendent; Gay McDougall '72 J.D. of Global Rights; Charles Ogletree of Harvard Law School; Gary Orfield of Harvard University; Dennis Parker, assistant attorney general for the State of New York; Louis H. Pollak '48 J.D. of the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania; and Theodore M. Shaw, associate director-counsel, NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund.
Law School faculty participating in the conference include conference chair Drew S. Days III '66 J.D., Jack Balkin, Harlon L. Dalton '73 J.D., Reva Siegel '78 B.A., '82 M.Phil., '86 J.D. and Kenji Yoshino '96 J.D.
More information -- including a complete list of speakers and the conference agenda and registration -- is available online at www.law.yale.edu/brownconference.
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