Thursday Sept. 15: D.C. Book Launch and Discussion for ’Shame of the Nation’ by Jonathan Kozol

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Thursday Sept. 15: D.C. Book Launch and Discussion for Shame of the Nation by Jonathan Kozol

WHAT:

Washington, D.C., book launch and discussion for The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America by Jonathan Kozol

WHO:

Jonathan Kozol, National Book Award-winning author

Roger Wilkins, Pulitzer Prize-winning author

Ted Shaw, director-counsel and president of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund

Marian Wright Edelman, CEO and founder of the Children’s Defense Fund

WHEN: Thursday, September 15, 2005 10 a.m.

WHERE:

Georgetown University Law Center

Hart Auditorium, McDonough Hall

600 New Jersey Avenue, N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20001

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NOTE:

The Shame of the Nation (Random House, 2005) is a haunting journey through the classrooms in which children of color are contained, concealed, and isolated from American society. It offers a dramatic challenge to the nation, and to all of us, to reconceive and carry out an honorable struggle to fulfill at last the promise made in 1954 to end apartheid schooling in America.

This event is co-sponsored by the Dean’s office and the Children’s Defense Fund.

Contact Information

Ron Eckstein

Media Contact

Children’s Defense Fund

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