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The Feinberg Family Distinguished Lecture Series




	Charles Payne, Nicholas Katzenbach, Patricia Williams

THE FEINBERG FAMILY DISTINGUISHED LECTURE Series is made possible through the generosity of Kenneth Feinberg ’67 and his family and friends. They established a distinguished professorship in history to broaden our awareness of the importance of the past to the present and future. (For more on Feinberg, see “A Delicate Balance,” page 58.)

September 23: The Whole United States Is Southern!! Brown v. Board of Education and the Mystification of Race
Charles Payne, Professor of History, African American Studies and Sociology, Duke University
Payne’s scholarship focuses on urban education, the civil rights movement, social change, and social inequality. He is also working on several publications, including Singing Songs to Dead Hogs: African-American Social Discourse at Century’s End, a collection of essays on racial identity and social consciousness; So Much Reform, So Little Change: Research, Policy and Practice in Urban Education, a critical overview of what has been learned from the last 15 years of experimentation in urban schools; and Fragile Victories: The Dynamics of Successful Schooling in Urban America, a summary of multi-year ethnographic investigations of both failing and successful schools in Chicago.
When & Where: Flavin Auditorium, Room 137, Isenberg School of Management, 7:30 p.m.

October 7: Brown and the Civil Rights Movement: A View from Washington
Nicholas Katzenbach, Former U.S. Attorney General
A longtime supporter of civil rights, Katzenbach oversaw departmental operations in desegregating the University of Mississippi in September 1962 and the University of Alabama in June 1963. He also worked with Congress to ensure the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. On the advice of Robert Kennedy, President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Katzenbach attorney general of the United States. In this post he helped draft the Voting Rights Act. Katzenbach clashed with J. Edgar Hoover over his policy of ordering unauthorized wiretaps of people such as Martin Luther King, and resigned in 1966, stating “he could no longer effectively serve as attorney general because of Mr. Hoover’s obvious resentment of me.”
When & Where: Mahar Auditorium, Isenberg School of Management, 7:30 p.m.

October 26: Diary of a Mad Law Professor: Recent Entries
Patricia Williams, Professor of Law, Columbia University,
and columnist for The Nation
Williams was born in racially segregated Boston in 1951. She entered elementary school in the immediate wake of the Brown v. Board of Education decision. Williams remembers hers as the only black family in her neighborhood when she was very little. In her 1995 book The Rooster’s Egg, Williams recalls, “Whites who had seen me born and baked me cookies at Halloween and grown up with my mother now fled for their lives.” Williams has been affiliated with Columbia University Law School since 1991 and has also taught at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She is the author of The Alchemy of Race and Rights: A Diary of a Law Professor (1991), The Rooster’s Egg: On the Persistence of Prejudice (1995), and Seeing a Color-Blind Future: The Paradox of Race (1997).
When & Where: Mahar Auditorium, Isenberg School of Management, 7:30 p.m.

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