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A Victory Over Segregation

 

  • Go here to read the story in the Press of Atlantic City

  • Go here for the statement from Pastor Willie D. Francois 

  • Go here to read the commissioner's decision

  • Go here to register for leadership training, June 22-25

  • Go here for Legislative Plan for School Integration 

 

 

 

 

 

2023 Speakers

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Fred Redmond

Secretary-Treasurer of the AFL-CIO and Recipient of the 2023 James E. Clyburn ``Vaults of Opportunity” Award
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Brenda Lawrence

Former Congresswoman and recipient of Summit for Civil Rights Shirley Chisholm Breakthrough Leader Award
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Rev. Dr. Otis Moss Jr.

Senior Pastor Emeritus, Olivet Institutional Baptist Church in Cleveland, OH
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Rev. Frederick D. Haynes III

President and CEO of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition
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Pierrette “Petee” Talley

Director, The Ohio Unity Coalition, and the Political Director of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionist (CBTU)
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United States Congressman Donald Norcross

Recipient of the 2023 Steve LaTourette Unified America Award
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U.S. Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick

Recipient of the 2023 Steve LaTourette Unified America Award
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Regina Anderson

Executive Director, Food Recovery Network
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Rev. Willie Francois

Pastor of Mount Zion Baptist Church, Pleasantville, NJ Coalition Against Racial Exclusion NJ-CARE, BOA
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Roland V. Anglin

Dean of the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University
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Annette Blackwell

Mayor of Maple Heights
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John C. Brittain

Olie W. Rauh Professor of Law, UDC David A. Clarke School of Law
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Rev. Evan Regis “Reegie” Bunch

Faith Community United
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Michelle Burris

Senior Policy Associate, The Century Foundation
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Rev. Dr. Keith W. Byrd, Sr.

National First Vice-Presiden, Progressive National Baptist Convention
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Scott DiMauro

President, Ohio Education Association
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Ana Garcia-Ashley

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF GAMALIEL FOUNDATION
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James Gee

Former Chief of Staff, the Honorable Bonnie Watson Coleman
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Debbie Goettel

Hennepin County Commissioner
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Lloyd D. Henderson, Esq.

President, Camden County East NAACP
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Mike Kruglik

Mike Kruglik, Board President of Building One America
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Linda Hinton

District 4 Vice President, Communications Workers of America Union (CWA)
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Tiffany Miller

Director of Federal Policy for the Learning Policy Institute
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Abigail Moncrieff

Professor of Constitutional Law at the Cleveland State University College of Law
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Reginald C. Oh

Professor of Constitutional Law at the Cleveland State University College of Law
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Myron Orfield

Myron Orfield
Professor of Civil Rights Law & Director of the Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity, University of Minnesota Law School
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Rev. Raimon Prince

New Cornerstone Missionary Baptist Church
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Josiah Quarles

Director of Organizing and Advocacy, Northeast Ohio Coalition for the Homeless
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Dale Robinson Anglin

Vice President, Grantmaking & Community Impact, the Cleveland Foundation
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David Rusk

Founding President, Building One America
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Davida Russell

Councilwoman and President of the Northeast Ohio District of the Ohio Association of Public-School Employees OAPSE/AFSCME Local 4/AFL-CIO)
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Judge Michael John Ryan

Ohio Eighth District Court of Appeals
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Mungu Sanchez

Deputy Political Director Keystone Mountain Lakes Regional Council of Carpenters
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Theodore M. Shaw

Julius L. Chambers Distinguished Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Civil Rights at the University of North Carolina School of Law at Chapel Hill
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Dr. Keith A. Troy

Pastor, New Salem Baptist Church
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Deepa Vedavyas

Program Manager, Neighborhoods and Environment at The Cleveland Foundation
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KaRon Waites Jr.

Financial Secretary for UAW Local 1050, Vice President, Ohio APRI
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André Washington

President, A. Philip Randolph Institute, Ohio
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David Rusk

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Marsha A. Mockabee

President and Chief Executive Officer, Urban League of Greater Cleveland
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Thomas Bullock

Member, Lakewood, City Council
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