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Distinguished Speaker Series presents John Doar

September 23, 2008

John DoarThe Gordon D. Schaber Lecture will again be presented on the campus of University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, and will feature one of the lions of the Civil Rights Movement, John Doar.

In 1963, Doar was a young attorney in the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, who found himself directly between a crowd of angry black youths and heavily armed riot police, following the assassination of civil rights leader Medgar Evers. Doar will share insights from a career marked by many such instances, in tireless pursuit of protecting the voting rights of black southerners, in a presentation titled, “How Will History Explain the Voting Rights Act of 1965?” Doar is a graduate of Princeton University and University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall).

Pacific McGeorge Professor Brian Landsberg, whose recent book Free at Last to Vote: The Alabama Origins of the 1965 Voting Rights Act has received wide acclaim, will introduce Doar at the event.

The annual Gordon D. Schaber Lecture is sponsored by the Witkin Institute, the Sacramento County Bar, and Pacific McGeorge. The Lecture and Luncheon will occur in the California Reading Room of the Gordon D. Schaber Library, from 11:30am to 1:30pm on Tuesday, September 23rd.

Thanks to underwriting by Alba Witkin, Thomson West, and the Witkin Institute, the Lecture and luncheon will be free for members of the Pacific McGeorge campus community, on a first-come, first-served basis. Thus, please RSVP to Casandra Fernandez at x7214.

For media inquiries or additional information, please contact Janine Lantz at 739-7197.