This program is free and open to the public. Registration is requested but not required.
Friday, May 17, 2024 | 2-6pm
DeLaine Waring AME Church | 680 Swan Street | Buffalo, NY 14210
Plenty of free parking in the lots next to the church!
Presented by the Bar Association of Erie County’s Diversity & Inclusion Committee, DeLaine Waring AME Church, the Minority Bar Association, the New York State Unified Court System Eighth Judicial District, Say Yes Buffalo, and UB Law Alumni Association’s Social Justice and Racial Equity Committee
May 17, 2024 marks 70 years since the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision from the US Supreme Court, which found that “separate but equal” racial segregation was unconstitutional, setting up the eventual integration of schools and other public spaces. The Rev. J.A. DeLaine, a school principal and activist instrumental in the case Briggs v. Elliott, which was combined with other cases into Brown v. Board, fled South Carolina after his home was attacked and burned. He came to Buffalo, founding the African Methodist Episcopal congregation which bears his name, as well as that of Judge J. Waties Waring, who guided Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP to take these cases to the Supreme Court.
This celebration with the DeLaine Waring congregation and Buffalo community will include historical context, free food, music, and small business vendors, and is free and open to the public. Please join us!
Speakers:
- Hon. Kevin M. Carter, Administrative Judge, New York State Unified Court System Eighth Judicial District
- Joseph A. DeLaine, Jr.
- Dr. Roy I. Jones, Ed.D., Clemson University
- Pastor Earl Perrin, Jr., DeLaine Waring AME Church
- Richard T. Sullivan, Esq., Author, Buffalo’s Monument to Civil Rights
Thank you to our generous program sponsors:
SILVER: Denine Jackson Interiors & Hodgson Russ LLP
BRONZE: Connors LLP, the Coppola Firm, Gibson, McAskill & Crosby LLP, Lippes Mathias LLP, Lipsitz Green Scime Cambria LLP, National Fuel, & Salcedo Appeals
