This program describes the Supreme Court’s Brown v Board of Education decision-making, including the background work of Chief Justice Warren’s law clerk, Earl E. Pollock. The program includes personal stories and experiences of lawyers and judges who attended segregated and integrated schools. Speakers address the path of Brown in constitutional law; its formal, resisted implementation in public education; and racial segregation and racial discrimination in the U.S. today. The program includes reminders of U.S. founding documents and the promise – Brown’s promise - of equality for all.
Moderators
- Judge Stephanie Martinez, District Court Judge, Second Judicial District of Nebraska
- Judge Emily Chafa, Administrative Law Judge, State of Iowa (Ret.)
Speakers
- Prof. John Q. Barrett, Benjamin N. Cardozo Professor of Law, St. John's University
- Judge Odell McGhee, District Court Judge (Ret.), Iowa Judicial Branch
- Tona Boyd, Associate Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense Fund
- Judge Jay Blitzman, Juvenile Court Judge, Middlesex County Juvenile Court
- Judge Joe L. Webster, U.S. Magistrate Judge, U.S. District Court for the Middle District North Carolina
- Judge Henry Hamilton, Federal Administrative Law Judge
- Thomas Saenz, President and General Counsel, MALDEF
- Dean Emeritus Alfred Dennis Mathewson, University of New Mexico School of Law