NEWS RELEASE

Immediate: September 10, 2015

Nassau Community College Presents Constitution Day 2015

The Road to Brown:  A Triumph of Justice and a Celebration of a Hero's Life

 

September 17

Garden City, NY – On Thursday, September 17, from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. in rooms 252-253 of the College Center Building, Nassau Community College will conduct its observance of Constitution Day. This year's topic is The Road to Brown: A Triumph of Justice and A Celebration of a Hero's Life.At that time, there will be a presentation of The Road to Brown, which is a film directed by William Elwood that chronicles the struggles that led to the seminal 1954 Supreme Court ruling Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka declaring racial segregation in public schools to be unconstitutional.It also chronicles the life of Charles Hamilton Houston, who, in addition to being at the very forefront on The Road to Brown, was a graduate of Harvard Law School, the Dean of Howard Law School, special counsel of the NAACP, teacher of future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, and "the man who killed Jim Crow." September 2015 marks the 120th anniversary of Houston's birth.For more information about Nassau Community College's celebration of Constitution Day, which is free, open to the public and accessible to the disabled, call 516.572.7811.

Media Contacts: Chuck Cutolo 516.572.7811 Alicia Steger 516.572.9634 chuck.cutolo@ncc.edu alicia.steger@ncc.edu ncc.edu/newsreleases

About Nassau Community College Nassau Community College, part of the State University of New York, is an institution where nearly 22,000 full- and part-time students and almost 15,000 continuing and professional students start and continue their successful journey through higher education. More than 70 fields of study are offered on a 225-acre campus located in the center of Long Island. As the largest single-campus two-year college in New York State, Nassau Community College maintains a national reputation for excellence.

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