Celebrate the 60th Anniversary of Brown v. BOE

On Tuesday November 4 from 4:00 p.m. till 5:00 p.m. the Rutgers School of Law - Newark will be hosting an event and panel discussion to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the landmark court decision in Brown v. Board of Education.

The panel discussion titled “Assessing Brown’s Historical Significance in Newark,” will be held in the Baker Trial Courtroom on the Rutgers Newark Campus. City historians and civil rights advocates will discuss the legacy of the decision, officially handed down in 1954, that outlawed racial segregation in the nation’s schools

Hosted in part by the Association of Black Law Students, the program will feature five panelists, civil rights attorneys, noted historians, and education law and policy experts uniquely qualified to discuss the topic.

The panelists include:

• Elise Boddie, Associate Professor of Law at Rutgers School of Law–Newark who previously was director of litigation at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund and has litigated complex affirmative action and school desegregation cases
• Dr. Robert Curvin, Distinguished Senior Policy Fellow at the Rutgers Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy and author of the new book Inside Newark: Decline, Rebellion, and the Search for Transformation
• Dr. Clement A. Price, Rutgers Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of History, founding director of the Rutgers Institute on Ethnicity, Culture and the Modern Experience, and official historian of the City of Newark

• Paul Tractenberg, Rutgers Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor, Alfred C. Clapp Distinguished Public Service Professor of Law, and co-author of the 2013 report “New Jersey’s Apartheid and Intensely Segregated Schools”
• Junius Williams, Director of the Abbott Leadership Institute at Rutgers University–Newark, attorney, and author of Unfinished Agenda: Urban Politics in the Era of Black Power

Information courtesy of Janet Donohue, image screenshot courtesy of Electronic Urban Report