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Education Symposium
“From Struggle to Triumph to Tomorrow”
Library of Virginia
800 East Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia, 23219-8000
Sunday, July 20, 2008: 3:00 to 5:30 p.m.
Library of Virginia, Lecture Hall
Premiere of “They Closed Our Schools” with a brief 5 min. trailer. The
film is based on the Moton story and will be followed by an Intellectual Symposium
to discuss the question of “Are our schools better off today? Where do we go from
here?”
Co-Chairs:
Kim Y. Farrar, Deputy Secretary of Administration
Jean Bankos, Special Assistant to the Governor for Education
Moderator:
Dr. Janice E. Hale, Professor of Early Childhood Education and Founding Director
of the Institute for the Study of the African American Child, Wayne State University,
Detroit, Michigan
Panelists Confirmed/In-Progress:
- Edward Ayers, President, University of Richmond and Champion for Diversity and Inclusion
- Billy Cannaday, Virginia State Superintendent of Public Instruction
- Nikki Giovanni, Acclaimed Poet/Distinguished Professor, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia and Honorary Co-Chair of the Virginia Civil Rights Memorial
- Andrew Heidelberg, Author, Member of the Norfolk 17 and Brown v. Board of Education Scholarship Committee
- Cheryl Brown Henderson, President and CEO, The Brown Foundation for Educational Equity, Excellence and Research
- Elaine Jones, Leading Civil Rights Attorney; Former President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.
- The Honorable Jerrauld Jones, Juvenile & Domestic Relations Court Judge; Former Member of the Virginia General Assembly
- Rita Moseley, student at the time of Prince Edward County School closing; current Secretary Prince Edward County High School
- Martha Rollins, President & CEO of Boaz & Ruth; award-winning crusader for rehabilitation of former prisoners, neighborhood revitalization and racial understanding
- Congressman Bobby Scott, U.S. Representative of the Third U.S. Congressional District & Champion for Social Justice
- Walter S. Segaloff, Chairman & Founder of Achievable Dream Academy , Norfolk, Virginia
- John Stokes, 1951 Student Participant in the Moton School
Protest and Plaintiff in the Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County
Case; Author and Lecturer, Retired Educator
Note: Book signing proposed; event may be televised