Sponsored by the Eisenhower Library and Foundation and the Kansas State University Institute for Military History and 20th Century American Studies

SCHEDULE: PROGRAM NOTE Sessions marked with * are open to the public. Those marked ** may be viewed by the public but participation in the discussions is limited to the teachers.

April 11, Friday:
8:00-8:45 Registration

9:00-11:00 OPTIONAL: Explore the Eisenhower Museum's new Presidential Gallery - Civil Rights section

*11:00-12:00 Dr. Lou Williams, Kansas State University - "The U.S.
Constitution and Civil Rights"

12:00 Lunch on your own

*1:15 - 3:15 Ralph Boyd, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights
Division - "Civil Rights: Then and Now"

Dr. James Leiker, Johnson County Community College - "Race and Ethnic Issues in Kansas"

Tina De La Rosa, Kansas Office of Hispanic Affairs - "The Hispanic Experience"

Brad Hamilton, Director, Kansas Office of Native American Affairs "The Native American Experience"
3:15 - 3:30 Break

**3:30 - 4:30 Discussion Session with presenters above: Dr. Sue
Zschoche, Kansas StateUniversity, moderator/commentator

6:00 - 7:00 Dinner, Library Courtyard, catered by Brookville Hotel

*7:15 The Brownell Memorial Lecture

Opening comments: Ann Brownell Sloane, daughter of Attorney General Herbert Brownell

"Two Generals, One Governor, and A Crisis: Dwight Eisenhower, Herbert Brownell, Orval Faubus, and the Little Rock School Desegregation Crisis," Dr. Charles Sanders, Kansas State University

Comments: Carlotta LaNier, one of the nine students who desegregated Little Rock Central High School

April 12, Saturday:
7:30-8:15 General registration and registration for graduate credit

*8:15-8:30 Opening Remarks- Cheryl Brown Henderson, President,
Brown Foundation

*8:30-10:30 Dr. Sue Zschoche, Chair, Department of History, Kansas State University - "Civil Rights and American Culture in the 1950s"

Carlotta LaNier - "Reflections on Little Rock"

Ralph Boyd, US Department of Justice

Summation: Ann Brownell Sloane

10:30-10:45 Break

**10:45 - 12:00 Discussion Session with presenters above: Dr. Robert
Rook, Ft. Hays State University, moderator/commentator

12:00-12:30 Distribute boxed lunches (teachers and presenters only)

12:30-2:30 Teaching Resources & Strategies
Charles Sanders
Lou Williams
Tom Putnam, Education Specialist, Kennedy Library
Kim Barbieri, Education Specialist, Eisenhower Library

` 2:30-2:45 Break

2:45-4:00 Discussion Session with presenters above: Dr. Charles Sanders, Kansas State University, moderator/commentator

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