The Center for Africana Studies presents
The Honorable A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. Memorial Lecture
“Winning While Losing? The Civil Rights Predicament in the Obama Era”
presented by
Dr. Mary Frances Berry, Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
5:30 p.m.
Gittis Hall 214, University of Pennsylvania Law School
3400 Chestnut Street (use Sansom Street entrance)
Free and Open to the Public
Dr. Mary Frances Berry is the author of nine books including her most recent, And Justice For All: The United States Commission On Civil Rights and the Struggle For Freedom in America (2009). From 1980 to 2004 she was a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, and from 1993-2004 served as Chair. Dr. Berry also was the Assistant Secretary for Education in the U.S. Department of Health, Education
and Welfare in the Carter administration, and is a founder of the Free South Africa Movement.
For more information, contact the Center for Africana Studies at 215-898-4965.