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MSU Project 60/50 and WKAR

0000017b-01f0-d19f-ab7b-19f504b80000A community conversation on civil rights and human rightsMSU's Project 60/50 is a yearlong community conversation on civil and human rights. The "60" represents 60 years since the Brown v. Board of Education ruling and the "50" represents 50 years since the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, making major forms of discrimination unlawful.To commemorate these important landmark events, support MSU's Project 60/50 and celebrate Black History Month, WKAR has several special program offerings in February 2014.For more about the MSU project, visitinclusion.msu.edu/Project6050

Project 60/50 kicks off year-long human rights conversation

WKAR Public Media | By Current State

Published January 20, 2014 at 12:09 PM EST

This year marks the anniversary of two crucial moments in our country’s long history of inequality. Sixty years ago, the Supreme Court handed out its landmark decision in Brown versus the Topeka Board of Education, which effectively ended legal segregation of our nation’s public schools. And 50 years ago this year, the Civil Rights Act was signed into law.Today, on the observance of Martin Luther King Day, Michigan State University kicks off a year-long commemoration of these events with Project 60/50.

John Beck is an associate professor in the School of Human Resources and Labor Relations at Michigan State University. Beck says major anniversaries like these are a change to look back, and to look forward.