Race: The Great American Divide

Introductory Remarks:

• Michael H. Armacost, President, The Brookings Institution

Keynote Speaker:

• Roger Wilkins, Clarence J. Robinson Professor of History and American Culture, George Mason University, and former Assistant Attorney General

Panel I: We Shall Overcome: Recalling the Civil Rights Struggles of the ’50s and ’60s

• Moderator, Juan Williams, author of Eyes on the Prize and Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary
• Douglas Brinkley, historian and director, Eisenhower Center for American Studies, University of New Orleans
• Joyce Ladner, senior fellow, The Brookings Institution and author of The Ties that Bind: African American Values
• Judy Richardson, producer of numerous PBS documentaries including Eyes on the Prize and Malcolm X: Make it Plain
• David Garrow, presidential distinguished professor, Emory University Law School and author of Pulitzer Prize winner Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Panel II: Facing the Future: The Obstacles To Achieving Equality

• Moderator, Juan Williams, author of Eyes on the Prize and Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary
• Christopher Foreman, senior fellow, The Brookings Institution and author of The African-American Predicament
• Sam Fullwood, Correspondent, Los Angeles Times and Author of Waking from the Dream: My Life in the Black Middle Class
• Hugh B. Price, president and CEO, National Urban League
• Hilary Shelton, director, NAACP Washington Bureau