Event is about one hour and 30 minutes. Good afternoon, everyone. Good afternoon, everyone. There we go. My name is dr. Malcolm woodland, i have the pleasure today of introducing congresswoman Frederica Wilson. Im a staff member in her office and i want the congresswoman to know she has worked so hard to make sure this panel is a success. We are excited to see you here today. We are excited to see the 5000 role models. We are excited to see Eastern High School and everyone else in the building. The congresswoman made it a point to go through every question and make sure every person, panelist would be right. This is her lifes work. I am so excited to bring to the stage congresswoman Frederica Wilson. [applause] rep. Wilson wow, good afternoon. Thank you so much for joining us here today. This is what i call riveting and ground breaking. This is a discussion that demands to be heard. Because we must interrupt the school to prison pipeline. [applause] and, Frederick Douglass said, it is
Event is about one hour and 30 minutes. Good afternoon, everyone. Good afternoon, everyone. There we go. My name is dr. Malcolm woodland, i have the pleasure today of introducing congresswoman Frederica Wilson. Im a staff member in her office and i want the congresswoman to know she has worked so hard to make sure this panel is a success. We are excited to see you here today. We are excited to see the 5000 role models. We are excited to see Eastern High School and everyone else in the building. The congresswoman made it a point to go through every question and make sure every person, panelist would be right. This is her lifes work. I am so excited to bring to the stage congresswoman Frederica Wilson. [applause] rep. Wilson wow, good afternoon. Thank you so much for joining us here today. This is what i call riveting and ground breaking. This is a discussion that demands to be heard. Because we must interrupt the school to prison pipeline. [applause] and, Frederick Douglass said, it is
If our second panel we have an esteemed group i went to acknowledge from maryland. Marilyns. Immediate past majority leader. And my friend hes been a great supporter of mine my whole career here. The folks of alabama want to thank you. [applause] so we are first joined by maya wiley president ceo of the Leadership Conference on civil and human rights please join me on stage. [applause] we have Cliff Albright cofounder of a black voters matter. With evan milliken and the plaintiff milliken versus allen case. Last certainly not least we have mark was the president ceo of the National Urban league. We have an amazing moderator she is none other than Simone Sanders townsend who hosts the simone show on msnbc. She is an author, a strategist, she is a bad sister thats all you need to know. We have an amazing panel amazing moderator and i cannot wait. Please give a warm round of applause. [applause] she has introduced our illustrious panel so we are going to go ahead and jump right into it. I
To set up the second panel. If our second panel we have an esteemed group i went to acknowledge from maryland. Marilyns. Immediate past majority leader. And my friend hes been a great supporter of mine my whole career here. The folks of alabama want to thank you. [applause] so we are first joined by maya wiley president ceo of the Leadership Conference on civil and human rights please join me on stage. [applause] we have Cliff Albright cofounder of a black voters matter. With evan milliken and the plaintiff milliken versus allen case. Last certainly not least we have mark was the president ceo of the National Urban league. We have an amazing moderator she is none other than Simone Sanders townsend who hosts the simone show on msnbc. She is an author, a strategist, she is a bad sister thats all you need to know. We have an amazing panel amazing moderator and i cannot wait. Please give a warm round of applause. [applause] she has introduced our illustrious panel so we are going to go ahe
Of jim crow, Charles Hamilton houston and the to brown versus board of education. 1954. So today well talk a little bit about this major figure africanamerican history. Charles houston, whos really important because he uses american law to dismantle the legal structure, the system that supports and upholds racial segregation in america. Hes a phenomenal person. Most people dont know him, but theyre more familiar with his students. And well talk or ill just mention some of those individuals like thurgood marshall, First Supreme Court justice, as well, as pauli murray, who helped write the brief that leads to weve come to know today is title nine legislation and Constance Baker motley william hastily other individuals. That are associated with houston and the Howard University school of law houston is significant among other things, hes responsible for creating what becomes known as the civil rights lawyer is group and cadre of individuals that will use american constitutional law to fun