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March 31, 2004

EXAMINING BROWN 50 YEARS LATER
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute Offers Conference on Landmark Court Case                   April 23-24, 2004 
                                                                               

Judge U.W. Clemon, Chief Federal Judge for the Northern District of Alabama, will speak on Friday.  Theodore M. Shaw, Incoming Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., will speak on Saturday afternoon.
 

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Birmingham—On May 17, 1954, in the case of Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka, the U.S. Supreme Court ended federally-sanctioned racial segregation in the public schools by ruling unanimously that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal."  A groundbreaking case, Brown not only overturned the precedent of Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), which had declared "separate but equal facilities" constitutional, but also provided the legal foundation of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's.
 
The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute along with its partners--Cumberland School of Law, Miles College Law School, Sixteenth Street Baptist Church and the University of Alabama School of Law--will present a public conference entitled "Brown At 50:  Where Do We Go From Here?"  The two-day conference will take  place Friday, April 23 and Saturday, April 24, at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute.  Judge U.W. Clemon, Chief Federal Judge for the Northern District of Alabama, will be the keynote speaker on Friday.  Theodore M. Shaw, Incoming Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., will close-out the conference on Saturday afternoon. 
 
This conference will address issues such as social changes resulting from Brown, reverse discrimination, resegregation, education and race relations.  Legal scholars, jurists, educators and grassroots activists will participate in the two-day sessions beginning at 1:00 p.m. on Friday, April 24.  Saturday's activities will include panel discussions with parents and children involved with early desegregation attempts in Alabama.  The conference agenda for Saturday, April 24 will run from 9:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m.  
 
Registration is required for the conference along with a nominal registration fee.  For additional information, please contact the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute's Education Department at (205) 328-9696, ext. 234.  The Institute is located at 520 Sixteenth Street North.
 
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Members of the planning committee for this conference are available for interviews.  If you are interested in scheduling an interview, please contact Angela Hall at (205) 328-9696, ext. 211.

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