Thursday, March 17 2016, 7pm Fine Arts Building “‘The Civil Rights Queen’: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Racial and Gender Equality in America," Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law and professor of history at Harvard University. Brown-Nagin’s 2011 book, Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement, won the Bancroft Prize in American History, making her the first woman of color to win the honor Sponsored by the Center for Social Justice, Human and Civil Rights; the School of Social Work; and the Foot Soldier Project for Civil Rights Studies. Part of the Signature Lecture Series.
