Speaker: Reverend Eric Griffin (son of the late Reverend L. Francis Griffin, spiritual leader of the Moton Movement and former pastor of First Baptist Church)

Co-sponsored by the offices of Multicultural Affairs and Alumni Relations.

Reception sponsored by Lancer Productions.

Dr. Jeff Abernathy graduated from Longwood College in 1985. He is the author of To Hell and Back: Race and Betrayal in the Southern Novel.

Sponsored by the University Lectures Committee and the Department of English and Modern Languages.

Attorney Oliver Hill was one of the leading attorneys for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in Virginia from the 1940s through the 1960s. In collaboration with lawyers in the NAACP National Office, Hill participated in devising the legal strategy and litigating the cases that culminated in the Brown decision. Attorney Jonathan Stubbs is a professor in the T. C. Williams School of Law at the University of Richmond.

Sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Affairs.

Ms. Crossley spent thirteen years as a network television producer for the ABC News program 20/20, where she produced “Black in White America,”a two-hour prime time special on race relations. She was also a producer of the critically acclaimed PBS documentary “Eyes on the Prize.”

Sponsored by the University Lectures Committee.

Longwood Center for the Visual Arts (LCVA) Exhibitions
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The Longwood Center for the Visual Arts (LCVA) will present two exhibitions to commemorate Brown v. Board from March 28-May 15, 2004. An opening reception will be held Sunday, March 28, from 2 - 4 p.m.

Photographs of Hampton and Tuskegee Institutes by Frances Benjamin Johnston
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Art by R. R. Moton School Former Students
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For more information, go to www.longwood.edu/lcva or 434.295.2206.

Dr. Waldo E. Martin, Jr. is a professor of history at the University of California at Berkeley and author of Brown v. Board of Education: A Short History with Documents (1998) and The Mind of Frederick Douglass (1985).

Sponsored by the University Lectures Committee and the Department of History, Political Science, and Philosophy.

The Department of History, Political Science, and Philosophy will host a reception honoring Dr. Martin immediately following the lecture.

Longwood University is extremely fortunate to feature Julian Bond, Chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), as commencement speaker for the Class of 2004 on May 8, 2004.

For more information, please visit the commencement web site.

Southside Virginia will celebrate the grand opening of its newest tourist destination, The Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail. Governor Mark Warner and Dr. Eugene Hickok, Under Secretary, U.S. Department of Education, will address 500 invited guests in the ceremony.

For more information, view the news release.