King Hall Professor Cruz Reynoso and Nationally Recognized Panel of Experts to Analyze Hispanics and the Civil Rights Movement in Washington D.C.

On Thursday, May 12, 2005 the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, DC will host a nationally recognized panel of experts who will present "Hispanics and the Civil Rights Movement"

Moderated by California Superior Court Judge Frederick P. Aguirre, who will present his article on the 1945 California desegregation case: "Mendez v Westminster School District: How it influenced Brown v Board of Education", the distinguished panel includes: U.S. District Court Judge (Retired) James DeAnda, co-counsel in the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court case of Hernandez v State of Texas and lead counsel in several landmark cases regarding public education in Texas; California Supreme Court Justice (Retired) Cruz Reynoso , former Vice-Chair of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and presently a Professor at the UC Davis School of Law ; and Professor Norma V. Cantu of the University of Texas at Austin School of Law who was the former Assistant Secretary of Education for Civil Rights for eight years and former regional counsel of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund.

The panel discussion, the first in a series of monthly events at NARA focusing on "Hispanics and the Formation of the American People", will be held at 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm in NARA's William G. McGowan Theatre, 700 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC.

The theater is located on Constitution Avenue, between 7th and 9th Streets, NW. There is no on-site parking and no free metered parking spaces along Constitution Avenue until after 6:30 p.m. Limited free parking is available one block south on Independence Ave along the National Mall. The nearest metro stop, directly across the street from the Archives on 7th and Pennsylvania Avenue, is "Archives/Navy Memorial" on the Yellow and Green lines.