BROWN V. BOARD 50 YEARS LATER
The Court as an Instrument of Racial Justice: Plessy, Brown, and Michigan

DATE: Thursday, December 2

TIME: 6:30 p.m.

LOCATION: DuSable Museum of African American History, 740 E. 56th Place

May 17, 2004, marked the fiftieth anniversary of Brown v. Board, the historic Supreme Court decision that paved the way for the desegregation of public schools and facilities. In commemoration of this historic decision, the Illinois Humanities Council and the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture is co-sponsoring a free event entitled ''The Court as an Instrument of Racial Justice: Plessy, Brown, and Michigan.''

This program will address the Supreme Court’s impact, both positive and negative, on the nation’s struggle for social and racial justice. Participants will include Theodore M. Shaw, President and Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund and lead counsel representing minority undergraduate students in the University of Michigan case that was decided by the Supreme Court in 2003, Professor Gerald Rosenberg, Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago and author of The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change? (1991), and Professor Ian F. Haney Lopez, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley and author of Racism on Trial: The Chicano Fight for Justice (2003) and White By Law: The Legal Construction of Race (1996).

“Brown v. Board 50 Years Later” is a free, year-long series of programs going on around Illinois from May 2004-May 2005. For a calendar of events or for more information, please visit the Illinois Humanities Council's “Brown v. Board 50 Years Later” website at www.bvb50.org or contact the IHC at 312.422.5580 or via email at ihc@prairie.org.

For additional information, contact the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture at (773) 702-8063 or csrpc@uchicago.edu.

The event is free and open to the public.

BROWN V. BOARD 50 YEARS LATER The Court as an Instrument of Racial Justice: Plessy, Brown, and Michigan

BROWN V. BOARD 50 YEARS LATER
The Court as an Instrument of Racial Justice: Plessy, Brown, and Michigan