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Pursuing the DREAM: Human Rights and Civil Rights in Texas

Pursuing the DREAM:

Human Rights and Civil Rights in Texas

April 16, 2013  3-8 p.m.

PANEL 1:  3 – 5 p.m. 

James Harrington

Founder and Director of the Texas Civil Rights Project 

Professor of Law, University of Texas Austin

Irwin Tang

Author and Founder of the Asian Texans History Project

Merline Pitre

Professor of African American  History,

Texas Southern University 

Graciela Sanchez

Co-founder and director, Esperanza Peace and 

Justice Center

RECEPTION: 5 – 6 p.m. 

PANEL 2:  6 – 8 p.m. 

Cynthia E. Orozco

Professor of History, Eastern New Mexico University

Oliver Hill

President of the NAACP San Antonio Chapter

Shannon Speed

Professor of anthropology, University of Texas Austin,

and director of the Native American and Indigenous 

Studies program

David Hinojosa

Regional counsel MALDEF Southwest Regional Office

Particia S. Castillo

L.M.S.W., executive director, The P.E.A.C.E. Initiative

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