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DU Hosts Lecture on Brown vs. Board of Education

Dominican University’s Office of Multicultural Affairs presents Dr. Manning Marable, one of the country’s most influential scholars on race and African American issues, on Tuesday, October 5 at 2:15 p.m. in the Springer Suite of the Rebecca Crown Library, 7900 W. Division Street, River Forest.

This lecture kicks off a number of programs to be presented this year by Dominican University in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision which held that the concept of separate but equal was unconstitutional because it violated the rights of African Americans who were segregated solely on the basis of their skin color. Dr. Marable will discuss the Brown vs. the Board of Education case and the barriers to personal achievement and social justice that are still pervasive today.

Dr. Marable is professor of public affairs, political science and history at Columbia University in New York City. He is the founder of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University, one of the nation’s most prestigious centers of scholarship on the African-American experience. He also established in 2002 the Center for Contemporary Black History at Columbia. He was the founding director of Colgate University’s Africana and Latin American Studies Program, chair of the Black Studies Department at Ohio State University and professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He has a doctoral degree in American history from the University of Maryland.

A prolific author, Dr. Marable wrote The Great Wells of Democracy: The Meaning of Race in American Life (2003) and served as editor of Freedom on My Mind: The Columbia Documentary History of the African American Experience (2003). He is currently working on books on the lives of Medgar Evers and Malcolm X.

Dr. Marable also actively speaks on behalf of prisoners’ rights and lectures frequently in New York’s Sing Sing Prison in a master’s degree program for prisoners.

For more information on this lecture, please contact Robbi Byrdsong-Wright at (708) 524-6831.