Tuesday, June 15, 2021
5:00 PM
to
7:00 PM (Eastern Daylight Time)
Back to Event
Register
Submit a Question
The Constance Baker Motley Speaker Series on Racial Inequality is presented by the Connecticut Bar Association (CBA) and its Diversity and Inclusion
Committee, in collaboration and co-sponsorship with the Connecticut Bar Foundation (CBF) and James W. Cooper Fellows
About the Program
Join us for the Constance Baker Motley Speaker Series on Racial Inequality year one summative event. Racial segregation characterizes every metropolitan area in the US and bears responsibility for our most serious social and economic problems. We’ve taken
no serious steps to desegregate neighborhoods, however, because we are hobbled by a national myth that residential segregation is de facto—the result of private discrimination or personal choices that do not violate constitutional rights. The Color of Law demonstrates, however, that residential segregation was created by racially explicit and unconstitutional government policy in the mid-twentieth century that openly subsidized whites-only suburbanization in which African Americans were prohibited
from participating. Only after learning the history of this policy can we be prepared to undertake the national conversation necessary to remedy our unconstitutional racial landscape.
Chief Justice Richard A. Robinson will facilitate a question and answer segment with Rothstein. A panel discussion, featuring Connecticut leaders in police accountability, housing desegregation, and political access, will follow to highlight what has
been done in the past year and how we will continue to address racial inequality in Connecticut in honor of the legacy of Hon. Constance Baker Motley.
Richard Rothstein is the author of The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, a New York Times Best Seller, and a distinguished fellow of the Economic Policy Institute, the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and of the Haas Institute at the University of California (Berkeley). In addition to The
Color of Law, he is the author of many other articles and books on race and education.
You Will Learn
- How government policies promoted segregation
- How data shows the biased impact of laws and policies
- About the CBA Policing Task Force's year-long study and resulting recommendations on issues of policing in Connecticut
- How zoning supports segregation in Connecticut and the progress we have made in addressing contributing law and policies
- How racially and ethnically diverse communities continue to experience challenges to full political inclusion
Who Should Attend
Any attorney interested in eliminating bias in laws and policies.
Note: The first 100 attendees of this plenary who request a copy of featured speaker Richard Rothstein's book, The Color of Law, will receive a free copy.
Not attending the conference? Visit ctbar.org/Motley-Series to register to attend.
Richard Rothstein's portion of the plenary will not be recorded. The panel discussion will be recorded.
CLE Credit
2.0 CT (Ethics)