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University
Of Virginia Experts Available For Comment On 50th Anniversary Of
Brown V. Board Of Education Of Topeka
February 3, 2004 --
In
1954, the U.S. Supreme Court Justices ruled, “We
conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of
separate
but equal has no place.”
This
year, education and legal scholars are reflecting on 50 years
since that landmark ruling on May 17
in the case of Brown v. Board
of Education of Topeka. Here is an abbreviated list of University
of Virginia experts knowledgeable about events and developments
related to the decision.
History
of American Education, Race, Ethnicity and Educational Access
Jennings L. Wagoner
Wagoner says, “While the legal props of segregated education
have been removed and indicators of real progress are clearly visible,
economic and social differences in our country continue to compromise
the ideal of equality of opportunity, even half a century after
that historic decision.” Wagoner, who co-authored “American
Education, A History,” has followed the changes wrought by
Brown v. Board of Education, from the country’s “dark
period” of “massive resistance” in several states,
through “a longer and brighter period of genuine striving” to
realize educational equality.
Phone: (434) 924-0808
E-mail:jlw@virginia.edu
Civil
Rights, Race and Politics
Julian Bond
A history professor and former civil rights activist, Bond
help found the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
(SNCC). He
was elected to the Georgia assembly in 1965, and was denied
his seat because of his statements opposing the war in Vietnam.
Re-elected
in 1966, he began serving after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld
his right to hold office. A Georgia state representative
until 1974,
he then served as a state senator from 1975 to 1987. Bond
led a group of black delegates to the 1968 Democratic Convention
where
he challenged the party’s unit rule and won representation
at the expense of the regular Georgia delegation. He has been chairman
of the NAACP since 1998.
Phone: (434) 924-6382
E-mail:hjb7g@virginia.edu
Women’s
Participation in the Civil Rights Movement
Holly Cowan Shulman
A research associate professor, Shulman is conducting an
oral history project, interviewing the 25 surviving members
of the
Wednesdays
in Mississippi Project of 1963-65. The project called on
women — white
and black, Northern and Southern, Catholic, Protestant and Jewish — to
build bridges of understanding across racial and class barriers
in a national drive toward racial justice. Influential women were
recruited from six northern cities to travel to Mississippi during
the Freedom Summer of 1964, spending their Wednesdays in Mississippi
to bear witness to the civil rights struggle there. One of those
women was Shulman’s mother, Pauline Spiegel Cowan, who co-founded
the project. Shulman recently donated Cowan’s notebook, which
provides first-person insight and commentary on the workings of
the group, to the U.Va. library. Shulman will donate her own tapes
and transcripts when the interviews are complete.
E-mail: hcs8n@virginia.edu
Other
topics include:
Civil
Rights Litigation, Race
Barbara E. Armacost
Professor of Law
Phone: (434) 924-3413
E-mail: bea4k@virginia.edu
Criminal
Law, Constitutional Law, Federal Courts, Civil Rights, Civil
Procedure, First Amendment, Supreme
Court
John C. Jeffries Jr., Dean
School of Law
Phone: (434) 924-7343
E-mail: jcj3w@virginia.edu
Constitutional
Law, Constitutional History
Michael J. Klarman
Professor of Law
Professor of History
Phone: (434) 924-3771
E-mail: mjk6s@virginia.edu
Constitutional
Law, Higher Education, College Admissions, Students’ Rights,
Bill of Rights, Civil Liberties, Affirmative
Action in Higher Education
Robert M. O’Neil
Professor of Law
Director, Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection
of Free Expression
Phone: (434) 924-7540
E-mail: rmo@virginia.edu Law and Education, Desegregation, Constitutional and Civil Rights
Law, Supreme Court
James E. Ryan
Professor of Law
Phone: (434) 924-3572
E-mail: jryan@virginia.edu
Civil
Rights, Criminal Justice
Ann Woolhandler
Professor of Law
Phone: (434) 924-4411
E-mail: naw2b@virginia.edu
Race
and Law, Affirmative Action, Integration, Slavery Reparations
Kim Forde-Mazrui
Professor of Law
Director, Center for the Study of Race and Law
E-mail: kimfm@virginia.edu
Contact:
Katherine Thompson Jackson, (434) 924-3629 |
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