Photographs
Far left: Dorothy Allison (third from left) and students following Allison's Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration keynote address. Photo by Joseph Mehling, College Photographer. Center: Members of AXIS Dance Company, a mixed-ability dance troupe, performing at the Hopkins Center as part of a Hopkins Center campus residency cosponsored by IDE. Photo by Jack Rowell. Right: Discussions at a Diversity Forum hosted by IDE. Photo by The Dartmouth.
Artwork
Detail from mural produced by Ernesto Cuevas and Dartmouth students as part of Encuentro Latino, a Summer Arts Festival coordinated by the Leslie Center for the Humanities.
Integration and Equality in American Society: Realizing the Dream on the 50th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education?
Shanta Driver is the National Coordinator of United for Equality and Affirmative Action Legal Defense Fund, the organization which initiated and directed the student legal intervention into the University of Michigan Law School affirmative action case, Grutter v. Bollinger, in which affirmative action was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court. UEAA brought the voices of minority students into the court room and established the most comprehensive record ever presented in an American court of the social inequities which necessitate affirmative action programs.
Ms. Driver is also the National Director of the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action and Integration and Fight for Equality by Any Means Necessary (BAMN), the organization which rallied the nation in defense of affirmative action through educational campaigns, petitions, marches and rallies. On April 1, 2003, BAMN mobilized over 50,000 high school and college students, union members and civil rights activists in a March on Washington to defend affirmative action, integration and equality.
Ms. Driver is an attorney who is currently pursuing a Graduate Fellowship in History and Legal Studies at Wayne State University. She has been a political and union activist for the past 25 years, leading campaigns against police brutality and for the rights of women, minorities and workers.
Ms. Driver has received numerous scholarships and awards, including most recently the 2002 Rosa Parks Award from the American Association for Affirmative Action.
7 p.m., The Moore Theater, Hopkins Center; Reception to follow at the Top of the Hop; Free tickets available at the Hop Box Office beginning Tuesday, January 13 at 10 a.m.; Four-ticket limit per person; Ticket-holders must be in their seats by 6:45 p.m., after which empty seats become available to the general public.
