Deadline extended--Final Call for Papers: “Looking Back, Moving Forward: The Unfinished Business of Brown v. Board of Education” examines the Brown decision, its legacy, and the challenges confronting the United States to redeem the promise of equality for all citizens. The conference will be held March 18-21, 2004, on the campus of Hood College.

The Program Committee invites proposals for individual papers, panels, workshops, and presentations that explore the Brown decision and its impact on American society, culture, and education. In particular, we seek submissions from historians, sociologists, psychologists, educational policy specialists, urban education experts, civil rights activists, administrators, legal and Constitutional scholars, on any of the theme related to the decision, including Thurgood Marshall, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and the legal strategy; the legal, political, and social legacy of the decision; teaching Brown in the classroom; Brown II; What Brown should have said; the state of education today; the impact of Brown on educational policy; busing and other remedies for segregation; minority achievement since Brown; the resegregation of the nation’s schools; the complexity of race and education in the United States;

Send completed proposals, which must include the title; a 250-500 word abstract of the paper; the affiliation, postal address, telephone, fax, and email of the speaker; a one-paragraph biographical statement of the presenter, by 15 September 2003 to: