Alice Gresham Bullock, professor of law and former dean of the law school at Howard University in Washington, D.C., will present The Dream Team: Brown's Lawyers as Social Engineers at 3:30 p.m., May 10 at Margaret M. Walter Hall, room 135. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Bullock is a prominent legal educator with a reputation for taking a hard look at legal issues in taxation and family wealth transfer (wills, trusts and estates). She has been known to advocate for and develop social policy to secure equal justice for all, especially middle- and low-income groups. In addition to her many accomplishments, she was recognized for her groundbreaking work in legal education on behalf of minority groups when the 20,000-member National Bar Association bestowed her with its highest honor, the Gertrude E. Rush Award. In 1999, Suffolk University awarded her an honorary doctor of laws degree in recognition of her contributions to legal education.

Bullock joined the faculty at Howard in 1979 and was appointed dean of the law school in 1997, serving in that capacity until July 2002. Before she was named dean, Bullock served stints as associate dean and acting dean of the law school. She has also held the title of associate dean for academic affairs during her tenure. While on leave from Howard University from 1992-94, she served as deputy director of the Association of American Law Schools.

Bullock's expertise is tax law, wills, trusts, estates, professional ethics and corporations. She is a regular lecturer for the bar and has been an author of numerous professional articles on tax, estate planning, legal education and mental health.

She is a member of the American Law Institute, the American Bar Association Committee on Teaching Taxation and is a former member of the Board of Directors of the Council on Legal Education Opportunity, the Board of Visitors of Brigham Young University Law School and the Board of Trustees for the Institute for Independent Education.

This lecture is part of Ohio University's Brown v. Board of Education commemoration and is sponsored by the Brown v. Board of Education 50 th Anniversary Commemoration Committee, the Department of African American Studies and the Martin Luther King Jr. Committee. For more information, visit www.ohio.edu/brownvboard/.

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G. Pritchy Smith, professor of education at the University of North Florida will speak on May 6 and 7 on the Ohio University campus. Both lectures are free and open to the public.

He will present “Who Will have the Moral Courage to Heal Racism in America” at 7 p.m. on Thursday, May 6 at Bentley Hall, room 227. The lecture is part of Ohio University’s Brown v. Board of Education commemoration.

On Thursday, Smith will discuss the story “T.J. and the Education of a White Boy,” as the basis for analyzing three characteristics of racism in the United States and the importance of moral courage to correct social and educational injustice in American schools.

At 2:30 p.m. on Friday, May 7 at McCracken Hall, room 214, Smith will present “Desegregation and Resegregation after Brown: Implications for Teacher Education.” The lecture is part of the College of Education’s 3rd Annual Research Conference. During this discussion, he will discuss his work on minority teacher recruitment and retention.

Smith is one of the founders and a past vice president of the National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME) and serves on the organization’s board of directors and publications committee. He is the author of the 1998 book “Common Sense about Uncommon Knowledge: The Knowledge Bases for Diversity in Teacher Education.” In the book, Smith defines 13 knowledge bases for diversity, identifies key elements of each knowledge base, discusses the status of the work in the area and describes a wealth of resources.

Prior to teaching at North Florida, he served as director of teacher education at Paul Quinn College and Jarvis Christian College, two historically black colleges located in Texas. In 1998, Smith received an American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) Advocate for Justice Award.

Smith earned a bachelor’s in English from the University of Texas at Austin and master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of North Texas.

Smith’s visit is sponsored by the Brown v. Board of Education 50th Anniversary Commemoration Committee, the College of Education and the Martin Luther King Jr. Committee. For more information about Ohio University’s Brown v. Board of Education commemoration, visit www.ohio.edu/brownvboard.

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Wednesday, April 21, 2004 at 8 pm in Irvine Auditorium
Reception and book signing to follow

Speakers: Dolores Johnson, Kojo (William T.) Jones, Jr., and William Drennen, Jr.
Topic: "Desegregation in Appalachia: Race, Class, and Choice Before and After Brown v. Board"
Tickets: Free and open to the public

In 2004, Ohio University Press published a collaborative memoir written by Mr. Jones and Mr. Drennen and edited by Marshall University Professor of English Dolores Johnson. Entitled Red, White, Black, and Blue, the book explores how the desegregation of West Virginia schools following the Brown decision played a role in the lives of two men (one black and one white) whose lives prior to the landmark Supreme Court case intertwined.

Professor Johnson in editing the memoir brings to the fore questions about culture and language and their contributions to the complexities of communication.

On April 21st, all three individuals associated with Red, White, Black, and Blue will revisit the time of Brown, their subsequent lives, and the ongoing challenges associated with race, class, and choice.

Purchase Red, White, Black, and Blue from Ohio University Press

Dolores Johnson is a professor of English at Marshall University, and the author of Not a Story to Be Told: Discourse, Race, and Myth in Huntington, West Virginia Newspapers, 1872 and 1972 and articles on teaching strategies for the multicultural classroom.

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Tuesday, February 17 at 7 pm, Baker Center Ballroom
Speaker: Eleanor Holmes Norton

Eleanor Holmes Norton is a nationally recognized civil rights and feminist leader, tenured Professor of Law and board member of three Fortune 500 companies. She is currently serving her seventh term in the U.S. House of Representatives. She was named the first woman to chair the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission by President Jimmy Carter.

This event is being co-sponsored by the Office of Institutional Equity, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., and United Campus Ministry.

Contact: 740-593-2620.
Tickets: free and open to the public