Constitution Day 2024
Brown v. Board of Education at 70: The Making of a Miracle
Tuesday, September 17
12-1 p.m.
Max L. Rowe Auditorium
University of Illinois College of Law
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, Illinois
Featuring:
Brett Gadsden, Associate Professor of History
Northwestern University
This year's campus Constitution Day event will celebrate the seventieth anniversary of the Supreme Court's 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark ruling that invalidated racial segregation in public schools. Professor Brett Gadsden (Northwestern University), one of the nation's leading scholars on the Brown decision and its aftermath, will discuss the challenges in bringing and winning the Brown case, the difficulties in actually desegregating the schools after the Court ruled, and what we can learn from the decision seventy years later. Jason Mazzone, Albert E. Jenner, Jr. Professor of Law, will provide commentary.
Free and open to the public.
A limited number of lunches will be available for lecture attendees.
Sponsored by:
Office of the Chancellor
College of Law
Program in Constitutional Theory, History and Law
Livestream available at: https://www.youtube.com/live/qBLjRHZNVRo