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New Symposium -- The Civil Rights Act of 1964 at 50: Past, Present, and Future
Linda McClain
A new symposium, “The Civil Rights Act of 1964 at
50: Past, Present, and Future,”
published in 95 Boston University Law
Review 683-1232 (2015), is now available online. The Symposium observes the fiftieth anniversary of the landmark
Civil Rights Act of 1964. Growing out of a live conference held at Boston
University School of Law on November 14 &15, 2014 (I was chair of the planning committee), the just-published Symposium includes twenty-two
articles by prominent scholars from law, economic history, political science, and
sociology. Topics addressed include:(1)
historical perspectives on the 1964 Act and other civil rights laws; (2) classifications
and categories in the 1964 Act and in subsequent civil rights laws; (3)
reshaping public and private space -- public accommodations, neighborhoods, and
housing; (4) reshaping public and private space -- education, the workplace,
and the military; (5) proving discrimination; and (6) the limits and future of
antidiscrimination law. My own contribution to the Symposium is the article, "The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and 'Legislating Morality': On Conscience, Prejudice, and Whether 'Stateways' Can Change 'Folkways.'" The Symposium concludes with remarks on the role of transformational
leadership in the civil rights movement by a colleague at BU's School
of Theology, the alma mater of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The live conference included a keynote address by Dr. William Julius Wilson, Harvard University, on "Public Policy Challenges Facing the Growing Shift in Emphasis from Race-Based to Class-Based Programs," and a closing keynote address by EEOC Commissioner Chai Feldblum on "Gender Equity: 50 Years After the Passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964." The rest of the live conference proceedings are available here. Posted
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by Linda McClain [link]