University of Massachusetts Amherst

The Federal Government and the Civil Rights Movement

Panel Discussion, "The Government and the Movement," featuring former U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach and Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) leaders John Bracey and Michael Thewell, part of the Feinberg program, a semester-long series of events reflecting on the legacy of the U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 school desegregation decision, Brown v. Board of Education.