On June 30, 2021 at 12:30 pm, the NC Commission on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Criminal Justice System (NC CRED), the ACLU of North Carolina, and the Center for Death Penalty Litigation co-sponsored a webinar focusing on the historic role of white elites, including judges and lawyers, in the movement to construct Confederate iconography across North Carolina and usher in Jim Crow-era policies. They also discussed the importance of engaging lawyers in today’s Confederate monument removal efforts.
Panelists

David Cecelski
Award-winning Author and Historian

C. Scott Holmes
Associate Clinical Professor of Law, NCCU

Dawn Blagrove
Executive Director of Emancipate NC
Moderator

James Williams
Founder and Chair of the NC Commission on Racial and Ethnic Disparities