Dr. Derrick Bell

NYU Professor of Law, Dr. Bell's career includes work in the late fifties with the Civil Right Division of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, where he was recruited by Thurgood Marshall. Stretching the bounds of legal discourse, Dr. Bell utilized allegorical fiction in works that make the issues of law and race available to a broad public. These book include And We Were Not: The Elusive Quest for Racial Justice (1987); Faces at the Bottom of hte Well: The Permanence of Racism (1992); Confronting Authority: Reflections of an Arden Pritester; and most recently Gospel Choirs: Psalms of Survival in an Alien Land (1996).

Thursday, October 12, 2000
Time: 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 pm
Location: School of Architecture Lecture Hall, Room 0204

Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings

Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Senior Fellow in Urban Education at the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, Dr. Ladson-Billings' research interests focus on the relationship between culture and schooling, particularly successful teaching and learning for African American students. Her publications include the Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children and The Dictionary of Multicultural Education. She is currently the editor of the Teaching, Learning & Human Development section of the American Educational Research Journal and a member of several editorial boards including, Urban Education, Educational Policy, and The Journal of Negro Education. She currently serves as Member-at-Large on the American Education Research Association Council.



Monday, November 13, 2000
Time: 4:30
Location: Nyumbury Cultural Center Auditorium


Prof. Julian Bond


Professor Bond is currently Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the American University in Washington, D.C., and a faculty member in the history department at the University of Virginia. Since his college days, Julian Bond has been an active participant in the movements for civil rights, economic justice, and peace, and an aggressive spokesman for the disinherited. As an activist who has faced jail for his convictions, as a veteran of more than 20 years of service in the Georgia General Assembly, as a writer, teacher, and lecturer, Bond has been on the cutting edge of social change since he was a college student leading sit-in demonstrations in Atlanta in 1960. Today he serves as chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization.


Spring 2001
Time: TBA
Location: TBA


For additional information please contact Dr. Steven Selden, ss22@umail.umd.edu, 301-405-3566

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