LVA Book Talk Series - Law Touched Our Hearts: A Generation Remembers Brown v. Board of Education

Library of Virginia Book Talk Event 10 February 2009

Editors Mildred W. Robinson and Richard J. Bonnie offer an overview of the moving stories of those who attended public school soon after the Brown v. The Board of Education decision and saw the course of their lives and their society change. These personal accounts of how Brown affected them say much about race relations then and now. Robinson is Henry L. & Grace Doherty Charitable Foundation Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law. Bonnie is Harrison Foundation Professor of Medicine and Law, Hunton & Williams Research Professor, and director of the Institute of Law, Psychiatry & Public Policy at the University of Virginia.

Publisher's information:
Vanderbilt University Press
http://www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/bookdetail.asp?book_id=4161

Category:

Education

Tags:

• African Americans
• Intergration
• Desegregation
• Book Talks
• The Library of Virginia
• Mildred W. Robinson
• Richard J. Bonnie