15th Amendment - Princeton University

The Princeton University Constitution Day Lecture
The
Belief
in
Things
Unseen:
orator, writer and statesman
Frederick Douglass
and the Constitutional
equality
of all people
Imagination
13th Amendment
abolitionist
Slavery
My
Bondage
Imani
Perry and My Freedom
Professor of African American Studies
14th
Emancipation Proclamation
Amendment
Commentators:
Robert P. George
McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Professor of Politics
15th Amendment
Painter
KlanNellAct
Edwards Professor of American History, Emerita
suffrage
Thursday, September 13, 2012
4:30 p.m.
African American
Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall
presented by the Program in American Studies, the
Program in Law and Public Affairs, and the James
Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
supported by the Office of the Provost
Imani Perry is a Professor in the Center for
African American Studies and a Faculty Associate in the
Program in Law and Public Affairs. She holds a Ph.D.
in American Civilization from Harvard University, and
a J.D. from Harvard Law School, as well as a B.A. from
Yale College. She is the author of: More Beautiful and
More Terrible: The Embrace and Transcendence of Racial
Inequality in the United States (NYU Press, 2011) and
Prophets of the Hood: Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop (Duke
University Press, 2004) and numerous scholarly articles
in the fields of Law, Literature and Cultural Studies. Her
non-academic writing includes book reviews and short
articles for a number of publications including: The New
York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Huffington
Post and the Chronicle of Higher Education. Robert P. George
is McCormick Professor of
Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison
Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton
University. He has served on the President’s Council on
Bioethics and as a presidential appointee to the United
States Commission on Civil Rights. He is a former Judicial
Fellow at the Supreme Court of the United States,
where he received the Justice Tom C. Clark Award. His
recent honors include the United States Presidential
Citizens Medal and the Honorific Medal for the Defense
of Human Rights of the Republic of Poland. He gave
the 2007 John Dewey Lecture in Philosophy of Law
at Harvard and the 2008 Guido Calabresi Lecture in
Law and Religion at Yale. In 2012 he was nominated
to serve on the U.S. Commission on International
Religious Freedom. A graduate of Swarthmore College
and Harvard Law School, he earned a doctorate in
legal philosophy from Oxford University, and holds
honorary doctorates of law, letters, science, ethics, civil
law, humane letters, and juridical science. He is Founder
of the American Principles Project, an organization
dedicated to shaping public policy in line with our
Nation’s founding principles.
Nell Painter is the painter formerly known as Nell
Irvin Painter, the author of several scholarly books,
including Creating Black Americans (2006) and The
History of White People (2010). As a member of the
Princeton History Department, she taught the history
of the United States South, the US at the turn of the
twentieth century, and cultural studies for historians, and
headed the Program in African American Studies 19972000. She earned a BFA from the Mason Gross School of
the Arts at Rutgers in 2009 and an MFA from the Rhode
Island School of Design in 2011, both in painting, and
recently concluded an artist’s residency at Aferro Gallery
in Newark. Though the recipient of several honorary
degrees, her most famous turn came on The Colbert
Report, when she arm wrestled Stephen Colbert.