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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0 PETERS JOINS EDUCATION PANEL DISCUSSION AT AUGUST 27TH CONFERENCE ON CIVIL RIGHTS

  • 06/18/2013
  • Van White
  • · Featured · News

cherisewithstudentCherise Y. Peters currently serves as the Associate Provost and Vice President for Enrollment Management at Alabama State University. During her thirty-two years of experience in the field of post secondary education she has seen it all.  Watching young adults making Doctor King’s dream come true at colleges and universities, has been especially satisfying to Peters.  But witnessing the low college retention rates among students of color and the achievement gap that carries over from high school into college has been, at times, very frustrating for Peters.  Her award winning work on enrollment and admissions services at large universities and colleges like Alabama State, Georgia State, and DeVry Universities uniquely positions her to offer insights into the solutions that will keep the dream alive for college students across our nation. We are fortunate to have her join Doctor Perkins at the Washington Court Hotel (located at 525 New Jersey Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C.) on August 27, 2013.  Register on-line for the conference today!  UPDATE: Former Chicago Public Schools CEO Jean Claude Brizard will join Doctor Perkins and Vice Provost Peters at the August 27, 2013 conference.

0 DOCTOR PERKINS TO BE A PANELIST AT CIVIL RIGHTS CONFERENCE AT THE WASHINGTON COURT HOTEL

  • 06/15/2013
  • Van White
  • · Featured · News · Uncategorized
DR. BRIAN PERKINS TO BE A FEATURED PANELISperkinshorizpixT AT THE AUGUST 27, 2013 CONFERENCE ON CIVIL RIGHTS AT THE WASHINGTON COURT HOTEL.
Dr. Brian Perkins is the Director of the Urban Education Leadership Program at Columbia University Teachers College Department of Organization and Leadership.  Dr. Perkins is a distinguished Yale alumnus and was named a Timothy Dwight Fellow in 2004. He was a member of the research faculty at the Yale University School of Medicine.  He has served as a consultant to school districts throughout the U.S., the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of South Africa. He was recently the President of the New Haven Board of Education where he served for almost 11 years.  He also served for four years on the Board of Directors of the National School Boards Association.  Dr. Perkins served two terms as national chair for CUBE: Council of Urban Boards of Education and was the chair for the National Black Caucus of School Board Members. Dr. Perkins was also the national chair of the Leadership for Healthy Communities initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Dr. Perkins is the author of several published articles and book chapters and serves as the Principal Investigator and Author of Where We Learn (2006), Where We Teach (2007) and What We Think (2008) – the largest studies on urban school climate in the history of public education.  His forthcoming manuscript, Improving School Climate from the Inside Out, is scheduled to be released later this year.  Dr. Perkins has recently released a survey and study (endorsed by the National School Boards Association)  to  better understand school climate.  The results of the study were released in 2011 and believed to impact school district practices across the nation.  Given his extensive experience, we feel very fortunate to have him as a principal participant in this very important conversation on civil rights.

0 FIRST P.S.A. REGARDING THE COMMEMORATIVE MARCH HITS THE AIRWAYS

  • 06/15/2013
  • Van White
  • · Event
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0 FIRST PSA REGARDING ACTIVITIES SURROUNDING THE MARCH ON WASHINGTON TO AIR

  • 06/15/2013
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Courtesy of Eliot Hines Middle School, you’re listening to the first public service announcement letting folks know that there will be a march and conference (on August 27 and 28, 2013) celebrating the historic 1963 March on Washington.

 

0 DETROIT NAACP AND UAW TO SPONSOR FREEDOM MARCH ON JUNE 22, 2013

  • 06/12/2013
  • Van White
  • · Featured · News

DETROIT NAACP AND UAW COMMEMORATING FREEDOM MARCH ON SAT. JUNE 22, 2013 IN DETROIT MICHIGAN

Many people don’DetroitNAACPt realize this but, in 1963, two months before Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I Have A Dream Speech” in Washington, D.C., he delivered a similar speech before a crowd of thousands in Detroit Michigan. In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of that June 22, 1963 speech and march, the Detroit Branch of the NAACP and the UAW are organizing a Freedom March on June 22, 2013 in Detroit Michigan.

People interested in that march and wanting further details should contact the Detroit Branch of the NAACP at (313) 871-2087 or go to www.DetroitNAACP.org.

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