Diversity in education is a hot topic right now, as the U.S Supreme Court this week heard oral arguments in the affirmative action challenge Fisher v. University of Texas.
Harvard Law School’s Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice is taking a historical view of the topic with a conference on October 12-13 called “Cooper v. Aaron: Between Little Rock and a Hard Place.” The conference will include a re-examination of the Supreme Court’s landmark 1957 Cooper ruling, presided over by Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, as well as a discussion with four of the original “Little Rock Nine.” They were the first black students to enroll in Little Rock Central High School in 1957—one of the most important developments in the civil rights movement.
