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MLK Day Keynote Address
By distinguished legal historian Michael Klarman
Sunday, January 14th at Cathedral of the Pines, Rindge, NH
1:00 PM
The Jaffrey-Rindge MLK Committee and Cathedral of the Pines present keynote speaker Michael Klarman for Celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. 2024. In recognizing the 60-year anniversary of the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Professor Klarman will speak on “Brown v. Board, the Civil Rights Movement, and Where We Are Today on Race.”
Dr. Klarman is the Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History at Harvard Law School and a noted expert in civil rights and constitutional law. He received his J.D. from Stanford Law School and his D. Phil. in legal history from the University of Oxford, where he was a Marshall Scholar. After law school, he clerked for the Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and served on the faculty of University of Virginia School of Law as the James Monroe Distinguished Professor of Law and Professor of History. He has received numerous awards for his teaching and scholarship and in 2009 was inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. His books include From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality, awarded the 2005 Bancroft Prize in History, and The Civil Rights Movement and Unfinished Business: Racial Equality in American History, part of the Oxford University Press Inalienable Rights series.
The talk will be followed by a question-and-answer period and meet-the-professor reception.
Seating is limited; reservations are encouraged. Contact kristen@cathedralofthepines.org or 603-899-603-899-3300, Ext. 2. For updates go to www.facebook.com/CathedralofthePines.
This program is supported by grants from the Community Center of Jaffrey, M&T Bank, Rindge Woman's Club, Savings Bank of Walpole, and the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation's Putnam Foundation.
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