“The US Constitution, the Judiciary and Knowing Your Rights” · 2019-04-02 · Pi Sigma Alpha...

Monday, april 8th8:45 am to 9:00 am

Registration and WelcomeLegacy Museum 1st Floor

9:00 am to 10:15 am

Panel Discussion “Tuskegee and the Civil Rights Movement”

Legacy Museum 1st Floor

The New Jim Crow: Race, Poverty and the Criminal Justice System

Legacy Museum 2nd Floor

10:30 am to 11:45 amEmerging Issues in Voting Rights

Legacy Museum 1st Floor

Power Struggle: The Presidency, Congress, the Courts and Federalism

Legacy Museum 2nd Floor

LuncheonLegacy Museum (Interior Entrance)

12:45 pm to 1:15 pm

Guest speaker: Mr. Aristotle Jones (TU alumnus)

Government Affairs Coordinator at the Urban Institute

1:30 pm to 2:45 pmTaking a Knee: Free Speech and Minority Communities

Legacy Museum 1st Floor

Civil Liberties and Contemporary Social IssuesLegacy Museum 2nd Floor

3 pm to 4:15 pmSocial Movements, Interest Groups and

Institutions of InfluenceLegacy Museum 1st Floor

International Human RightsLegacy Museum 2nd Floor

6 pm

Pi Sigma Alpha Induction Ceremony (Tompkins Ballroom)

Pi Sigma Alpha: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

keynote speaker: The Honorable Chokwe Antar Lumumba

Mayor of Jackson, MississippiClass of 2005

tuesday, april 9th

Women in Power ForumLegacy Museum 1st floor

10 amReception to follow

panelists: Ms. Carol Moulton

Director of the Office of Equal Employment Opportunity for the United States Food

and Drug Administration

Ms. Cynthia Hardy YoungCEO of Pivot Global Partners

Dr. Kellei Samuels

Associate Vice President, Office of Institutional Effectiveness &

SACSCOC Liaison, Tuskegee University

Fourth annual political science research syMposiuM

April 8-9, 2019“The US Constitution, the Judiciary and Knowing Your Rights”

Hosted by the Department of History and Political Science and the College of Arts and Sciences

Sponsored by: Andrew Mellon Foundation