{"id":56465,"date":"2019-01-29T10:55:15","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T15:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/?p=56465"},"modified":"2019-11-01T11:44:19","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T15:44:19","slug":"the-2019-shapiro-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/2019\/01\/29\/the-2019-shapiro-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2019 Max M. Shapiro Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>A Conversation with Judge Richard M. Gergel, <span>United States District Judge, Charleston Division District of South Carolina.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3>The 2019 Shapiro Lecture<br \/>\nFebruary 28, 2019<br \/>\n12:45\u20132:00 p.m.<br \/>\nBarristers Hall<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/law\/files\/2019\/01\/Gergel-Eventbrite-636x318.jpg\" alt=\"A Conversation with Judge Richard M. Gergel\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-56467 alignnone\" width=\"636\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2019\/01\/Gergel-Eventbrite-636x318.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2019\/01\/Gergel-Eventbrite-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2019\/01\/Gergel-Eventbrite-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2019\/01\/Gergel-Eventbrite-1536x768.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2019\/01\/Gergel-Eventbrite-2048x1024.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2019\/01\/Gergel-Eventbrite-1200x600.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2019\/01\/Gergel-Eventbrite-992x496.jpg 992w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2019\/01\/Gergel-Eventbrite-1500x750.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2019\/01\/Gergel-Eventbrite-1920x960.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2019\/01\/Gergel-Eventbrite-500x250.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2019\/01\/Gergel-Eventbrite-1000x500.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2019\/01\/Gergel-Eventbrite-1984x992.jpg 1984w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2019\/01\/Gergel-Eventbrite-1628x814.jpg 1628w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Boston University School of Law<br \/>\n765 Commonwealth Ave, Barristers Hall<\/p>\n<p><button id=\"eventbrite-widget-modal-trigger-55412865372\" type=\"button\">Register<\/button><br \/>\n<noscript><\/a>Buy Tickets on Eventbrite<\/noscript><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/static\/widgets\/eb_widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    var exampleCallback = function() {\r\n        console.log('Order complete!');\r\n    };\r\n\r\n    window.EBWidgets.createWidget({\r\n        widgetType: 'checkout',\r\n        eventId: '55412865372',\r\n        modal: true,\r\n        modalTriggerElementId: 'eventbrite-widget-modal-trigger-55412865372',\r\n        onOrderComplete: exampleCallback\r\n    });\r\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Richard Gergel is the author of <i>Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waties Waring<\/i>. Gergel\u2019s book recounts President Harry Truman\u2019s outrage upon hearing of Sergeant Isaac Woodard\u2019s removal from a Greyhound bus in Batesburg, South Carolina. Woodard, a returning, decorated African American veteran, was arrested in uniform, beaten, and blinded while in custody. Truman established the first presidential commission on civil rights and his Justice Department filed criminal charges against the local police chief.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">An all-white South Carolina jury acquitted Shull, but the presiding judge, J. Waties Waring, was conscience-stricken by the failure of the court system to do justice by the soldier. Waring described the trial as his \u201cbaptism of fire,\u201d and began issuing major civil rights decisions from his Charleston courtroom, including his 1951 dissent in\u00a0<i>Briggs v. Elliott\u00a0<\/i>declaring public school segregation per se unconstitutional. Three years later, the Supreme Court adopted Waring\u2019s language and reasoning in\u00a0<i>Brown v. Board of Education<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Richard Gergel\u2019s\u00a0<i>Unexampled Courage<\/i>\u00a0details the impact of the blinding of Sergeant Woodard on the racial awakening of President Truman and Judge Waring, and traces their influential roles in changing the course of America\u2019s civil rights history.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Gergel will discuss his book, and then open up to a faculty round-table discussion. The event will close with a Q&amp;A portion.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Faculty Panel:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Jack Beermann<\/strong>, Professor of Law, BU School of Law<br \/>\n<strong>Kristin Collins<\/strong>, Professor of Law, BU School of Law<br \/>\n<strong>Angela Onwuachi-Willig<\/strong>, Dean, BU School of Law<br \/>\n<strong>Portia Pedro<\/strong>, Associate Professor of Law, BU School of Law<\/p>\n<h3>About the Max M. Shapiro Lecture<\/h3>\n<p><em>The Max M. Shapiro Lecture, BU Law\u2019s principle endowed lectureship, serves as a tribute to the memory of Max Shapiro (\u201833), a lawyer who devoted his career to examining the place of legal ethics in trial advocacy.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Conversation with Judge Richard M. Gergel, United States District Judge, Charleston Division District of South Carolina. The 2019 Shapiro Lecture February 28, 2019 12:45\u20132:00 p.m. Barristers Hall Boston University School of Law 765 Commonwealth Ave, Barristers Hall Register Buy Tickets on Eventbrite Richard Gergel is the author of Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. 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