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In the academic year 2003-04, the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign hosted a year-long, comprehensive “Jubilee
Commemoration” of Brown
v. Board of Education (hereafter “Brown”), the U.S.
Supreme Court’s landmark decision on school desegregation. On- and off-campus
units and individuals were invited to apply for Jubilee Commemoration funding
to support events, performances, lectures, readings, films, and exhibits. This
initiative resulted in hundreds of events that were, in turn, supplemented by
many unofficial but related gatherings. The U of I’s effort stands as perhaps
the most extensive attempt by a U.S. university to launch a comprehensive conversation
on race and diversity through the commemoration of Brown. |
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