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Theodore M. Shaw is the Associate Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal
Defense and Education Fund, Inc. He has litigated civil rights cases throughout
the United States on the trial and appellate levels, as well as in the Supreme
Court. In addition, he is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Columbia University.
Jason H. Silver/man is Professor of History at Winthrop University. His
publications include Unwelcome Guests: Canada West's Response to American Fugitive
Slaves, 1880-1865 (1985) and The Peopling of America: A Synoptic History (1994).
Michael Walzer, a member of the Institute for Advanced Studies at
Princeton University since 1980, is the Editor of Dissent. His publications
incude Exodus and Revolution (1985), Interpretation and Social Criticism (1987),
vend Pluralism, Justice, and Equality (1995).
Nancy J. Weiss is Dean of the College, Princeton University. Her books
include Farewell to the Party of Lincoln: Black Politics in the Age of FDR (1983)
and Whitney M. Young, Jr., and the Struggle for Civil Rights (1989).
Cornel West is Professor of Afro-American Studies and the Philosophy of
Religion at Harvard University. His most recent publications are Race Matters
(1993) and, with Michael Lerner, Jews and Blacks: Let the Healing Begin (1995).
Patricia J. Williams is Professor of Law at Columbia University. Her publications
include The Alchemy of Race and Rights (1991) and The Rooster's Egg
(1995).