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Moving Brown Forward
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| On May 7, Pitt hosted a conference titled Fifty Years After Brown: New Solutions for Segregation and Academic Underachievement, the second of two conferences sponsored by Pitt and Duquesne University commemorating the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education. The conference was hosted by Pitt’s Center on Race and Social Problems (CRSP) and funded by The Heinz Endowments and The Pittsburgh Foundation. Attending the conference in the Carnegie Music Hall were, from left, Duquesne University President Charles J. Dougherty; Pitt Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg; James P. Comer, Maurice Falk Professor of Child Psychiatry at Yale University; Abigail Thernstrom, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute; Gary Orfield, director of the Harvard Project on School Desegregation; and Larry E. Davis, dean of Pitt’s School of Social Work, Donald M. Henderson Professor in the School of Social Work, and director of CRSP, who organized the conference. (For more on the commemoration of the Brown decision, see Pitt Associate Professor Laurence Glasco’s essay.) MORE >> |
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