I got an email from a woman named Sarah Myers who thought you all might be interested in this opportunity. If you are, you need to RSVP to sbm6x@virginia.edu so that she will save you a spot.

Risa Goluboff
The Lost Promise of Civil Rights
Monday, September 17, 2007
11:00 AM

Risa Goluboff, associate professor of law at the University of Virginia, has published a new history of the civil rights movement in the 1940s. Her book, hailed by reviewers as "brilliant" and placing her "at the front rank of twentieth-century American historians," shows how movement activists focused on redressing prejudice faced by agricultural and industrial workers before desegregating public secondary and elementary schools. Goluboff argues that when NAACP lawyers succeeded in Brown v. Board, they marginalized the host of other problems afflicting most African Americans. Goluboff earned a Ph.D. in history from Princeton University and a law degree at Yale Law School, where she was senior editor of the Yale Law Journal. She clerked for Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer. A book signing will follow her Forum.