1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Fighting for Our Lives and Our Liberty | 50th Anniversary March on Washington

50th Anniversary of the March on Washington

On August 27th hundreds of citizens attended the 2013 Conference on Civil Rights: Marching Forward By Looking Back. The following morning, on August 28, 2013, thousands of citizens, from across this country, converged upon our nation’s capital to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington.

This site provides opportunities for people to share remembrances of and pictures from both marches. Additionally, visitors to this site can get updates on a variety of ongoing civil rights initiatives intended to make Dr. King’s dream a reality.

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PANEL DISCUSSION | EXECUTIVE

SUMMARY OF DISCUSSION

The children’s defense fund coined the phrase the “cradle to prison pipeline”. Author Michele Alexander referred to it as “the new Jim Crow”. Whatever you call it, CFSCHRL founder and civil rights lawyer Van White, observed that men of color often give up or say “f@#k it” when confronted with the realities of racial profiling and disparate sentencing. Listen and learn from a panel of experts (Bruce Alexander, commissioner of schools Akron, Ohio; Christi Griffin, esq. Of the ethics project; Sheila a. Bedi, associate clinical professor, NW University school of law.) On proven strategies for dismantling the cradle to prison pipeline and how we can best bring hope to the young men and women of color who are caught up in the strong current within the pipeline.