- Collection:
- Sibley Lecture Photo Gallery Archive
- Title:
- Sibley Lecture 2004 - 1 - image 6
- Creator:
- University of Georgia. School of Law
- Date of Original:
- 2004-04-07
- Subject:
- Law schools--Georgia
University of Georgia. School of Law
Speeches, addresses, etc.
Brown
Oliver
1918- --Trials
litigation
etc.
Topeka (Kan.). Board of Education--Trials
African Americans--Segregation
Civil rights movements--Georgia
African Americans--Civil rights--Georgia
Education
Higher--Georgia
United States. Supreme Court
Anniversaries--United States
African American lawyers
African American judges
African American law students
African American law teachers
John A. Sibley lectures in law
Segregation in education--Georgia
African Americans--Education
Law - People:
- Davenport, Chester C., 1940-
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, Clarke County, Athens, 33.96095, -83.37794
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Page of program for an event commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education and desegregation in education. Part of the event included the 97th John A. Sibley Lecture at the University of Georgia School of Law, given on April 7, 2004 by Chester C. Davenport, the first African American graduate of the UGA School of Law. Other speakers and panelists at the event included UGA Law professor Larry Blount, Judge Robert Benham, Georgia's first African American Supreme Court justice, Sharon Tucker, UGA Law's first African American female graduate and law professor at Albany State University, and Judge Horace T. Ward, the first African American student to challenge the racially discriminatory practices at the University of Georgia School of Law and the first African American to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. The illustration is of Hirsch Hall.
Note: This item was digitized in 2021 thanks to a subgrant from the Digital Library of Georgia (DLG). All images were made freely available and accessible in 2022. - Metadata URL:
- https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/sibley_lectures/464
- Extent:
- 12.97 in. x 9.98 in. (32.94 cm x 25.35 cm) program
- Holding Institution:
- Alexander Campbell King Law Library
- Rights:
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