Hello, neighbors, This Sunday morning, the Baltimore Ethical Society will host an address by a University of Baltimore professor on school desegregation.
The history behind Brown v. Board of Education is truly amazing. I recently learned about one example that helps demonstrate how Thurgood Marshall and NAACP colleagues laid the groundwork for Brown v. Board of Education very carefully. For instance, they used Plessy v. Ferguson ("separate but equal") to win the admission of black students to Poly by arguing that Baltimore had only one elite engineering high school and that the city could afford only one. Therefore, in the absence of an equal alternative, blacks must be admitted to Poly. That was one of the cases that led to Brown v. Board of Education. This Sunday's talk should be a good one. I've appended the description below, and you can find descriptions of other talks here: http://baltimoreethicalsociety.org/Calendar.php . Thanks, --Emil --- Brown at 54: New Challenges of the Hardening of the Categories by Lenneal J. Henderson, Professor of Government and Public Administration, University of Baltimore A trail of cases led to Brown v Board of Education Supreme Court Decision and to today's controversies in educational equity, especially the recent Supreme Court school decisions in Louisville and Seattle in 2007 that are radically redefining the Brown landscape. This platform discusses the shift in demographic, socioeconomic, and educational context and content of school segregation; the shift from rights to resources and the problem of equitable public school financing; and battles over curriculum and tracking, including the disproportionate number of non-white students in special education and learning disability tracks and the quality of education about issues of multiculturalism and diversity. Speaker bio: Lenneal J. Henderson is Distinguished Professor of Government and Public Administration and Senior Fellow at the William Donald Schaefer Center for Public Policy and a Senior Fellow in the Hoffberger Center for Professional Ethics at the University of Baltimore where he was formerly a Henry C. Welcome Fellow. Dr. Henderson has been a consultant to federal, state, and local government, the corporate sector, and the nonprofit sector for more than thirty years in the areas of housing, education policy, energy management, environmental policy, and public management. He recently completed service as Interim Provost and Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs at North Carolina Central University in Durham. He is the author or editor of four books and forty-two articles. He received his A.B., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley. When: 10:30 AM, Sunday, November 30th Where: Baltimore Ethical Society, 306 W. Franklin St. (The Old Congress Hotel) _______________________________________________ Chat mailing list Chat@charlesvillage.info http://charlesvillage.info/mailman/listinfo/chat_charlesvillage.info archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/chat@charlesvillage.info/