On April 12, 2004, the School of Law community listened in wonder and awe as Congressman John Lewis (D-GA) offered a dynamic and moving slice of civil rights and educational equality history for the 12th annual Rauh Lecture.
UDC President William Pollard provided a warm welcome and UDC-DCSL's Rauh Professor, Wade Henderson — by day Executive Director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights — introduced the Congressman. Lewis provided a personal and poignant history of the civil
rights struggle, describing the pain, the progress, and the only partially fulfilled promise of generations of activism.
In powerful and eloquent terms, Lewis exhorted the wonderfully diverse crowd of students,
staff, faculty, alumni, Rauh family members, and friends, to consider the blood shed for equal educational rights, to keep hope alive and to take up the cause. His ability to bring history to life appeared especially fascinating to the many young adults in the audience.
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