The keynote address by Bond, current chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), occurs on the second day of a Nov. 13-15 symposium, Reconsidering Little Rock: 50 Years After the Start of School Integration.
Bond's talk will focus on the social ramifications of desegregation over the decades. A panel discussion with a view toward San Diego schools, From Lemon Grove to Little Rock and Back Again: Schools, Segregation and Society, will follow Bond's speech. Panelists will include Robert Alvarez, professor, Ethnic Studies, UCSD; Hugh (Bud) Mehan, professor of sociology and director of the Center for Research on Educational Equity, Access and Teaching Excellence (CREATE), UCSD; Vincent Riveroll, director, Gompers Charter Middle School; Nora Gordon, professor of Economics, UCSD, and Cecil Lytle, associate director of CREATE, moderator.
Terrence Roberts, an original member of the Little Rock Nine-the first group of students to be integrated into the Little Rock high school in 1957-will be a special guest panelist. Roberts, now a clinical psychologist and desegregation consultant, will open the symposium at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 13 with a talk, Lessons from Little Rock, in the Weiss Forum Theatre.
While a student at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Ga., during the early 1960's, Bond helped found the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Elected in 1965 to the Georgia assembly, he was denied his seat because of his statements opposing the war in Vietnam. Reelected in l966, he began serving after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld his right to hold office. A state representative until 1974, he then served as a state senator from 1975 to 1987. Bond led a group of black delegates to the 1968 Democratic Convention where he challenged the party's unit rule and won representation at the expense of the regular Georgia delegation. He became chairman of the NAACP in 1998.
The symposium is sponsored by UCSD's Thurgood Marshall College and Earl Warren College in partnership with California Western School of Law and Helen Edison Lecture Series. Co-chairs are Allan Havis, Marshall College provost, and Steven Adler, Warren College provost.
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