Columbia Law School Professor Olatunde C. Johnson joined a panel hosted by the school to explore the civil rights legacy of Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was serving as the 13th president of Columbia University when he was elected to the U.S. presidency in 1952. Columbia Law School published a story about the panel discussion on its website Oct. 17, "Panel Examines Eisenhower’s Civil Rights Legacy to Mark 70th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education."
Johnson, who is the Ruth Bader Ginsburg '59 Professor of Law and a member of the Center for Political Economy's advisory board, joined five others on the panel held Sept. 19: Jeremy Kessler, Stanley H. Fuld Professor of Law; Justin Driver, Yale Law School; William I. Hitchcock, University of Virginia, James F. Simon, New York Law School, and Paul B. Stephan, University of Virginia School of Law. It was moderated by Nicholas Rostow, Yale Law School.
Marking the anniversary of Brown is “poignant,” Johnson said, because to date, “we haven’t fully desegregated our schools. So that’s always the conflict at the core. But I still think Brown is an important moment in signaling an aspiration to equal citizenship.”
