Activist to visit Ottawa University

An activist and author of a book about the Brown v. Board of Education case will visit Ottawa University next month.

Derrick Bell, author of “Silent Covenants: Brown v. Board of Education and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform,” will speak at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 14 at the OU chapel. The appearance is part of the university’s Presidential Lecture Series.

Bell writes in his book that the Brown case, which ended school segregation, actually harmed black children’s educations.

He currently is visiting professor at the New York University School of Law and was the first black person to receive tenure at Harvard Law School.

The lecture is free and open to the public.