Speakers | Dorothy L. Thompson Civil Rights Lectures

Series Speakers

DVDs of some of the past lectures are available for checkout or viewing through the Office of Institutional Equity and through the K-State Libraries.

2015

Speaker	Date
Dr. Mildred Edwards Westar Energy Manager for Training and Development	September 28, 2015

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Dr. Mildred Edwards

Westar Energy Manager for Training and Development

September 28, 2015

2013

Speaker	Date
Reggie Robinson Washburn University Professor of Law Supreme Court Reconsiders Voting Rights Act: Broken Law or Broken Promise?	September 17, 2013
Jeff Jackson Washburn University Professor of Law Forming the American Constitution: A Nation Building Game	September 4, 2013
Richard Thompson Ford George E. Osborne Professor of Law at Stanford Law School Rights Gone Wrong	February 28, 2013

2012

Speaker	Date
Professor Steven Ramirez Professor of Law, Director, Business and Corporate Governance Law Center at Loyola University Chicago Affirmative Action at the Crossroads: The Uncertain Future of Race-Conscious College Admissions	September 19, 2012
Dr. Bob Zellner Civil Rights Activist	March 6, 2012

2011

Speaker	Date
Dr. Ali Khan Professor of Law at Washburn University School of Law and expert on Islamic Law American Muslims and the Right to Religious Freedom	March 15, 2011

2010

Speaker	Date
"Papers" Documentary on Undocumented Youth and Panel Discussion	September 19, 2010
Who Will Judge You? Advancing Judicial Diversity	September 15, 2010
Cars, Cops, and Traffic Stops: Who's Right?	October 12, 2010

2009

Speaker	Date
Guns on Campus? The New Understanding of the Right to Bear Arms	September 16, 2009
Professor Mark Peterson Chair of the Washburn University Department of Political Science Arthur Fletcher: What Would the 'Father of Affirmative Action' Think of His Child Today?	April 2, 2009

2008

Speaker	Date
Mary Frances Berry Former Chairperson of the Civil Rights Commission Panel Discussion on Racial Profiling	September 2008

2007

Speaker	Date
Mira Mdivani Immigration Attorney Brown is the New Black and Green Cards are Pink: Immigration Law for Normal People	March 12, 2007
Ambassador Edward Perkins Former Ambassador to the U.N., Liberia Civil Rights and Citizens' Rights: Our Constitution	February 20, 2007

2006

Speaker	Date
Civil Rights and Same-Sex Couples Pedro Irigonegaray, Joel Oster, Professor Bill Rich	April 6, 2006

2005

Speaker	Date
Professor Patricia Williams Professor at Columbia University Law School Civil Rights in an Era of Social Wrongs	September 29, 2005
Judge Paul Brady Federal Administrative Law Judge The Twoness in America: Black and American	March 16, 2005

2004

Speaker	Date
Nadine Strossen President of the ACLU	October 29, 2004
Michael Ratner President of the Center for Constitutional Rights Guantánamo, Enemy Combatants, and Torture: The End of the Rule of Law in America	September 21, 2004
Arthur A. Benson II Civil Rights Attorney Brown v. Topeka Board of Education: 50 Years of Doing Right for the Wrong Reason?
Jeannine Bell Associate Professor of Law On the Frontlines of the Battle Against Hate Crimes

2003

Speaker	Date
Stephen Jones Attorney-at-Law Representing a Terrorist in Court
Anthony Romero Executive Director, ACLU The State of Our Civil Liberties	April 23, 2003
Marianne (Mimi) Wesson Chilling Effects: Cross-burning, Pornography and Censorship	February 6, 2003

2001

Speaker	Date
Susan Okin International Development and the Importance of Gender	April 18, 2001
Cheryl Brown Henderson, Ronald C. Griffin, Stephen A. Adams Giving Visibility, Voice and Victory to the Disenfranchised: A Legacy of Brown v. The Board of Education.

2000

Speaker	Date
Mayor Bob Knight Undoing Racism	October 19, 2000
Barbara Bergmann Bringing About Equality Between Women and Men: What Needs To Be Done	September 20, 2000
Robert Meeropol The Death Penalty: The Rosenbergs and Mumia Abu-Jamal	March 27, 2000
Lani Guinier Civil Rights Activist Co-sponsored with the Martin Luther King, Jr. Observance Week Committee	January 18, 2000

1999

Speaker	Date
Kerry Kennedy Cuomo Human Rights and the Media
Noam Chomsky Sovereignty and World Order Co-sponsored with the Lou Douglas Lecture Series	September 20, 1999