On Thursday, November 12, at 7:00 pm, the Clarke Historical Library will host Dr. Joyce A. Baugh, retired professor of political science at Central Michigan University. Dr. Baugh will discuss how decades of segregation and racial discrimination in the Detroit metropolitan area have created and perpetuated racial inequities in housing, education, employment, and health care. Dr. Baugh is the author of The Detroit School Busing Case, Milliken v. Bradley and the Controversy over Desegregation. Her book examines the landmark 1974 Supreme Court decision<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milliken_v._Bradley> that effectively ended a major school integration plan to bus students across district lines in the Detroit metropolitan area. The Court's 5-4 decision hinged on the idea that if predominantly white school districts did not have an explicit policy of segregation, communities could not mandate busing to address the de facto segregation of schools that resulted from the geographic segregation of where people lived. This presentation is free and open to the public. The event will be broadcast via Central Michigan University's videoconferencing tool, Webex, and it will be recorded to enjoy at a later time. Registration is required for the event and the shortened link to register is: https://bit.ly/32mZmUf For those interested in the Clarke Historical Library Speaker Series Events that have been recorded this fall (A look at the Clarke's pop-up book exhibit, Matthew Reinhart on pop-up books, Carl Doud on mosquitoes and malaria, and Miles Harvey on James Jesse Strang), you can find them on YouTube<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIxEoD5u5xz2cxprWzIPJXw>. Feel free to share this information far and wide! The Clarke is happy to answer any questions that anyone may have-please contact Bryan Whitledge (whitl1br@cmich.edu<mailto:whitl1br@cmich.edu>). Have a great day, Bryan Whitledge Archivist for University Digital Records Clarke Historical Library Central Michigan University 989-774-2159 whitl1br@cmich.edu<mailto:whitl1br@cmich.edu>
