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February 14, 2006
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New Jersey Secretary of State Wells to Participate in Panel Discussion at William Paterson University About the Legacy of Rosa Parks
Nina Mitchell Wells, New Jersey Secretary of State; Karen Brown, Passaic County clerk, and Charley Flint, William Paterson University professor of sociology will discuss the life and accomplishments of Rosa Parks on Tuesday, February 21 at William Paterson University in Wayne.
The program will be held in the Cheng Library Auditorium from noon to 1:30 p.m. A reception will be held in the Paterson Room of the Cheng Library immediately after the discussion.
They will discuss the event which occurred on December 1, 1955, when the African American woman refused to give up her seat on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama and stepped into history. Her defiant act led eventually to the desegregation of the city’s buses, and is considered one of the seminal events of the movement.
Prior to her appointment as Secretary of State, Wells was the vice president for public affairs for Schering-Plough. Prior to that, she was the assistant dean at Rutgers Law School. She is a member of the Seton Hall Prep Board of Trustees, where she is a sponsor and advisor to the Thomas Griffin Bridges Program, a scholarship and support system for young men from the inner-city. She is a graduate from Newton College of the Sacred Heart, and earned a law degree from Suffolk University Law School.
Brown was elected as county clerk and took office in January 2005. She is a graduate of Seton Hall University and received a law degree from Rutgers School of Law.
A member of the University’s faculty since 1984, Flint was the first African American woman to receive a doctorate in sociology from Rutgers University, where she also earned a master’s degree. She also received a bachelor’s degree from North Carolina A&T. She is the coordinator of the University’s criminal justice program and is president of the board of trustees of the New Jersey Association of Corrections.
The event is sponsored by the University’s African, African American Faculty and Staff Association. For additional information, call Willola M. Ashley at 973-720-3787.
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