According to a press release just issued:
COURT HOSTS SPIRIT AND PLACE EVENT ON BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION DESEGREGATION CASEPosted by Marcia Oddi at November 4, 2004 03:13 PMThe Indiana Supreme Court will host a Spirit and Place event in its Courtroom re-enacting aspects of the famous desegregation case, Brown v. Board of Education, Chief Justice Randall T. Shepard announced today.
About 100 students from three Central Indiana schools will take part in the event by role-playing various parts of Brown and the related desegregation cases. It will begin at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2004 in the Courtroom on the third floor of the Indiana State House.
May 17, 2004 was the 50th anniversary of the famous U.S. Supreme Court case, which banned segregation of schools by race.
The event will be broadcast live on the Internet at www.IN.gov/judiciary/education. It is part of the ninth annual “Sprit and Place” Festival. Spirit and Place is Central Indiana’s annual civic festival of the arts, humanities, and religion. Produced by The Polis Center at IUPUI, the festival is a collaboration of dozens of partner organizations.
The 2004 festival takes place November 5 - 21, 2004 throughout Central Indiana. This year’s theme is Building & Belonging, with 100 events inspired by this fruitful idea. For more information, visit: www.spiritandplace.org.