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BROWN EVENTS AT PURDUE

BLACK HISTORY MONTH
February 2004
 

February 4-6 Brown @ 50: Trials, Transitions and Transformations symposium sponsored by the African-American Studies and Research Center

February 4, Wednesday,10:30 a.m. The First American Revolution on Race by Vernon Williams, professor of history at Purdue University, sponsored by African American Studies and Research Center. Stewart Center, Room 218

February 4, Wednesday, 1:30 p.m. Litigation and Legitimacy: The Legacy of Black Women’s Resistance by Rosalie Clawson, associate professor of political science at Purdue University, sponsored by African-American Studies and Research Center. Stewart Center, Room 218

February 5, Thursday, 9:00 a.m. Don’t Bring No Stuff, Won’t Be No Stuff: Education, Criminal Justice and Sexuality – A Matrix of Male Responsibility by Sloan Letman III, professor of criminal justice, Chicago State University and Sloan Letman IV, doctoral candidate, African World Studies, Emory University, sponsored by African-American Studies and Research Center. Stewart Center, Room 218

February 5, Thursday, 11:00 a.m. Counseling Multi-Cultural and Diverse Populations by Barry A. Schreier, staff psychologist, Purdue Counseling and Psychological Services at Purdue University, and Dorothy Simpson-Taylor, Diversity Resource Office director, sponsored by African-American Studies and Research Center. Stewart Center, Room 218

February 5, Thursday, 12:00 p.m. The Road to Brown one of three films in the Brown Bag Film series, sponsored African American Studies and Research Center. Stone Hall, Room B2

February 5, Thursday, 4:30 p.m. Affirmative Action and Higher Education: Race, Law and Education in a Post-Desegregation Era by Kevin Brown, law professor, Indiana University School of Law, sponsored by African-American Studies and Research Center. Stewart Center, Room 218

February 6, Friday, 9:00 a.m. Law, Religion and Education: Explorations in the Power, Politics and Importance of an Activist Tradition by Cora Breckenridge, educator and first African American trustee of Indiana University, Franklin Breckenridge, attorney and president of the Indiana chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and Carol Jo Brown, first African American member of the Lafayette School Corporation, sponsored by African-American Studies and Research Center. Stewart Center, Room 214

February 6, Friday, 11:30 a.m. Keynote address by Annette Gordon Reed, professor of law at New York University Law School, author of “Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy” and co-author of “Vernon Can Read! A Memoir”, sponsored by African American Studies and Research Center. Stewart Center, Room 214

February 12, Thursday, 12:05 p.m. Film: In Pursuit of Freedom and Equaility: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, sponsored by the Women's Resource Office. BRNG 2290

February 12, Thursday, 7:00 p.m. Fifty Years after Brown vs. Board of Education by Linda Brown Thompson and Cheryl Brown Henderson (the Brown sisters’ father was a plaintiff in the historic Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education), sponsored by the Black Cultural Center. Stewart Center, Fowler Hall

February 18, Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. Brown v. Board of Education by James T. Patterson, Ford Foundation professor of History at Brown University and author of Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy sponsored by the History Department. Fowler Hall