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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., October 9, 2014—Former director-counselor and president of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Theodore M. Shaw will deliver the 2014 Davis Lecture at Williams College on Thursday, Oct. 16. Titled “A New Paradigm: Race and Poverty in the Twenty-First Century,” the lecture will take place from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in the ’62 Center for Theatre and Dance, MainStage. The event is free and open to the public, but tickets are required. To obtain tickets, call the ’62 Center box office at (413) 597-2425 or reserve online at 62center.williams.edu.
Shaw will place “Post Racialism” or the “Age of Obama Paradigm” in historical context, while also considering contemporary events like the recent occurrence in Ferguson, Missouri. Additionally, he will address the evolving meaning of the American identity, reflection on its direction in the 21st century.
Currently the director of the Center for Civil Rights at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill School of Law, Shaw is also the first Julius Chambers Distinguished Professor of Law, which is funded by an endowment grant from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation. Before joining UNC, Shaw was a professor at his alma mater, Columbia University Law School, and prior to that, Michigan University Law School.
Shaw has litigated education, employment, voting rights, housing, police misconduct, capital punishment, and other civil rights cases in trial and appellate courts, and before the United States Supreme Court. He has also testified before Congress on numerous occasions and, after the 2008 presidential election, he served as team leader for the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department on the Obama Transition Team.
The W. Allison Davis 1924 and John A. Davis 1933 Lecture is an annual talk co-sponsored by the Oakley Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences and the Davis Center. It commemorates the remarkable work of two distinguished scholars, brothers who, throughout their adult lives, made important contributions to equal rights and opportunity in the U.S.
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Published October 9, 2014
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