• Nov 18, 2009

Stories from the Front Line: D’Army Bailey and Carlotta Walls LaNier

  • 6:00 PM
  • North Classroom, Austin Hall, Harvard Law School, 1515 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138

Join us as The Honorable D’Army Bailey and Carlotta Walls LaNier discuss their recent books.

In a revealing memoir titled The Education of a Black Radical: A Southern Civil Rights Activist’s Journey, retired Circuit Court Judge D’Army Bailey discusses his experience on the front lines of the black student movement of the early 1960s in both the South and the North.

In A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School, Carlotta Walls LaNier shares her insights into a life shaped by her role as one of nine young African American students cast into the international spotlight for integrating Little Rock Central High School in 1957.