Desegregation Focus of Jones School Lecture

Desegregation Focus of Jones School Lecture
RICE NEWS OFFICE
March 26, 1998

Curtis Graves, a key figure in the struggle to end discrimination in Houston
and a participant in the first sit-in demonstration west of the Mississippi,
will speak at Rice about leadership, courage and desegregation.

Graves is the special assistant for executive development in the Office of
Equal Opportunity Programs at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
He will lecture on "The Role of Leadership and Personal Courage in the
Desegregation of Houston" at 7 p.m. April 2 in Herring Hall, Room 124.
The student-run Leadership Development Program at the Jesse H. Jones Graduate
School of Administration is sponsoring the event. The lecture is free and open
to the public; a reception will follow.

Graves was Houston’s first black district attorney and Texas’ first black legislator
since 1981. He was also a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at Princeton University.

For more information call Doug Sewell at (713) 660-0520 or visit the Jones
School Leadership Development Program’s Web page at http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~ldp.