Ted Shaw

On Tuesday, June 2, from 6:30 to 8 PM, MMPCIA welcomes neighbor, Theodore M. Shaw, as guest speaker in its series of conversations between the community and leaders, news makers, artists, authors and thinkers who live in the Harlem area.

As early as high school, Ted Shaw had decided that he would find a way to work on issues of racial and economic justice. Affirmative action helped open doors for him—beginning as a student from a public housing project in the Bronx, to graduating from Wesleyan University with honors, to being named a Charles Evans Hughes Fellow after graduation from the Columbia University Law School. Access to education is a crucial component of opportunity and Ted Shaw has led in the legal struggle to open the doors of the schoolhouse and the university—as trial attorney in the Civil Rights Division of the US Dept of Justice in Washington, DC; as Director-Counsel and President of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund litigating landmark cases throughout the country at the trial and appellate levels and at the U.S. Supreme Court; and as a professor of professional practice at Columbia University Law School, teaching classes in civil procedure and constitutional law.

Please join MMPCIA and Ted Shaw for the second Mount Morris Talks, Tuesday, June 2, 2009 from 6:30 to 8:00 PM at the Harlem Branch of the New York Public Library, Community Room 3rd floor, 9 West 124th Street.

MMPCIA is sponsoring the series and offering it free of charge to the community.