Edward Shapiro, professor of History Emeritus at Seton Hall Univeristy and Jewish Historical Society (JHS) board member, will moderate a forum commemorating the 50th anniversary of Supreme Court Decision of Brown vs. Board of Education on Monday, May 17 on the Alex Aidekman Family Jewish Community Campus in Whippany at 7:30 p.m.
Frank Askin, a professor of Law at Rutgers University and General Counsel of the American Civil Liberties Union; Samuel Convissor, a JHS board member and former executive in both Newark corporations and municipal government; and Rabbi Israel Dresner, Rabbi Emeritus of Wayne Temple Beth Tikvah, will discuss their experiences in the civil rights crises that followed that monumental decision of half a century ago.
Askin, who has worked in civil rights for over 30 years, ran for Congress twice. Convissor has had intimate experience with the ethnic interactions that swept Newark after the decision as neighborhoods were changing rapidly and Rabbi Dresner, who says he became "the most arrested rabbi in America" because of his participation in civil rights demonstrations, was a close associate of the Nobel Prize winning Reverend Martin Luther King.
The forum is being sponsored jointly by the Jewish Historical Society and the Community Relations Committee. for more information.
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