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LAWRENCE -- The University of Kansas School of Law will host the National Bar Association's opening session of its annual Wiley A. Branton Issues Symposium Oct. 25.
This year's symposium, "Brown vs. Board of Education Revisited," will examine the lasting impact of the landmark 1954 Supreme Court case. The event is slated for 10 a.m. to noon in Room 203, Green Hall, 1535 W. 15th St., on KU's Lawrence campus.
Speakers and topics will include: Charles Scott, Jr., attorney at law, presenting an "Historical Perspective on Brown: Perspectives of Charles Scott, Sr. and Elisha Scott;" Ronald Griffin, professor of law, Washburn University, presenting "Epilogue: Where are we today? Brown II and III;" and Theodore Shaw, deputy director, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, presenting "Brown: A National Perspective."
The symposium addresses pressing social, legal and political issues affecting all communities and is open to the public.
The association is conducting its Board of Governors meeting and the 2002 Wiley Branton Issues Symposium Oct. 23 to 27 at the Westin Crown Center Hotel at Kansas City, Mo.
The National Bar Association, the nation's oldest and largest organization of color, represents a professional network of more than 20,000 African-American lawyers, judges, educators and law students. The association's 60th and current president, Malcolm Robinson, is a 1975 KU law school graduate.
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