Judge Roger Gregory, chief judge of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and Beth Hopkins, retired professor at Wake Forest University School of Law, will speak at 7 p.m. Wednesday, June 30, on “African- American Women: The Road to Brown & Beyond.”

The virtual program is the kickoff of the Marshall Scholar Series sponsored by the Rich- mond-based John Marshall Center for Constitutional History & Civics.

Ms. Hopkins, one of the first Black students to integrate Petersburg High School in 1964 and to live on campus at Wake Forest University, will talk about the history of race and educational access through case law and the key role of women in the education of Black chil- dren through history.

Among the women she will talk about are educator Mary McLeod Bethune; activist Ruth Harvey Charity and attorney Frankie Freeman, both of Danville; and Barbara Johns of Farmville, the 16-year-old who led a student walkout to protest the dilapidated conditions at the all-Black Moton High School in Prince Edward County in 1951. The walkout led to a lawsuit, Davis v. Prince Edward County, which became part of the landmark 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education that determined separate and unequal schools are unconstitutional.

Judge Gregory will speak about current attempts to change the law during the program’s question-and-answer segment.

The program is free for students, teachers and John Marshall Center members, and $10 for others.

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Details: johnmarshallcenter. org or (804) 775-0861