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."
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