| University
at Buffalo's
DEPARTMENT OF AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES Presents
on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of
the
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| Date: Thursday,
April 8, 2004
Time: 7:00 p.m. Place: The Screening Room, Center for the Arts. For further information call: 645 2082 Click here for additional material on Mary Frances Berry
With support from: Office of the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences; Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy; Department of Women's Studies; Graduate School of Education; John O'Brian School of Law; Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender; N.A.A.C.P. (Buffalo Branch); and the New York State African American Research Foundation. |
Dr. Mary Frances Berry is University
of Pennsylvania Distinguished Professor of History and Law. She holds the
Geraldine R. Segal Chair on American Social Thought. She is Chair of the
U.S. Civil Rights Commission.
Dr. Berry is the author of nine books, including "Black Resistance, White Law," "Why ERA Failed," and "Stability, Security and Continuity: Mr. Justice Burton and Decision-Making in the Supreme Court,1945-1958." She earned her Ph.D. and LL.B degrees from the University of Michigan. Dr. Berry, along with former Congressman Walter Fauntroy and Randall Robinson,organized the Free South Africa Movement. She is the recipient of numerous awards and honorary degrees. She is former Chancellor of the University of Colorado at Boulder and former Assistant Secretary of the former Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. |