Student Affairs SMU Multicultural Student Affairs
Dream Week 2013

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dream Week 2013

Schedule of events for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dream Week 2013:

Monday
Jan. 21
Day of Service
7:30 a.m. – Noon
*Note change in meeting location:
Meet at the Community Engagement & Leadership Center*
Hughes-Trigg Student Center, Suite 200
Co-sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs and Community Engagement and Leadership

Students will have opportunities to volunteer at Readers 2 Leaders, We Over Me Farm and the Wesley-Rankin Community Center.

Register to Volunteer

Tuesday
Jan. 22
Real Talk: Conversations Around Diversity
Dream or Nightmare: How far have we come since the MLK Speech
Hughes-Trigg Student Center Portico B-C-D
Noon
Wednesday
Jan. 23
Unity Walk
Featuring remarks from SMU President R. Gerald Turner
Noon
*Meet at the Hughes-Trigg Commons*

 

Dream Week Keynote Address
Cheryl Brown Henderson
Brown v. Board of Education: The Legacy Continues
Hughes-Trigg Student Center Theatre
6 p.m.

Cheryl Brown Henderson, one of the three daughters of the late Rev. Oliver L. Brown, who along with 12 other parents led by the NAACP, filed a lawsuit against the local board of education on behalf of their children in the historic school integration case Oliver L. Brown et. al. vs. the Board of Education of Topeka. The 1954 Supreme Court decision stated that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal."

Thursday
Jan. 24
Film Screening: Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin
Hughes-Trigg Student Center Forum
7 p.m.
Sponsored by the Women’s Center for Gender and Pride Initiatives
Friday
Jan. 25
Unity Luncheon
Hughes-Trigg Student Center Ballrooms
11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Co-sponsored by the SMU Asian Council, Association of Black Students, and College of Hispanic American Students


For more information, email multicultural@smu.edu or call 214-768-4400.