| Who:
Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. Professor of Law Harvard
Law School
What: Panel Discussion
- Brown v. Board of Education: Mission Accomplished?
When:
Monday, October 18, 2004 2:00 p.m.
Where:
The Historic Sale Hall Chapel Morehouse College
830 Westview Drive, S.W. Atlanta, Georgia
ATLANTA, October 6, 2004 – He’s
known as a distinguished professor of law who critically
analyzes complex issues concerning race and inequality.
Currently, Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. is the Professor
of Law at the prestigious Harvard Law School, and
author of the recently released and critically acclaimed
book All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First-Half
Century of Brown v. Board of Education.
On
Monday, October 18th, Charles J. Ogletree will
moderate the provocative panel Brown v. Board
of Education: Mission Accomplished?, where panelists
Dr. Cynthia M. Hewitt, assistant professor of
sociology at Morehouse College, Dr. Abraham L.
Davis, professor of political science at Morehouse
College, Dr. Marcellus Barksdale, professor of
history at Morehouse College, and Dr. Elaine Brown,
president of the nonprofit education corporation
Fields of Flowers, will further analyze the negative
and positive implications of this significant
case.
This
event also includes a special guest appearance
by George Greenidge, young leader and current
Executive Director of the National Black College
Alliance.
**All
media wanting to cover this event, must obtain
media credentials to access the Morehouse College
Campus. Please call the Office of Communications
at 404-507-8648 for more information.
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Ranked
three times as the number one college in the nation
for educating African American students by Black Enterprise
magazine, and recognized by The Wall Street Journal
as one of the top feeder schools for the 15 most prominent
graduate and professional schools in the country, Morehouse
College is the nation’s largest, private liberal
arts college for men. Founded in 1867, the College enrolls
approximately 3,000 students and confers bachelor’s
degrees on more black men than any other institution
in the world.
Prominent
alumni include Martin Luther King Jr., Nobel Peace Prize
laureate and civil rights leader; Dr. David Satcher,
former U.S. Surgeon General and director of the National
Center for Primary Care at the Morehouse School of Medicine;
Sheldon “Spike” Lee, filmmaker and president
of 40 Acres & A Mule Productions; Maynard H. Jackson,
founder of Jackson Securities and the first African-American
mayor of Atlanta; and Nima A. Warfield, the first African-American
Rhodes Scholar from an Historically Black College or
University.
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