Jackson Free Press

The Brown v. Board of Education Town Hall meeting, presented on May 27 by the Jackson Free Press, Parents for Public Schools, The Links of Jackson and 100 Black Men was televised every day last week at 11:50 a.m. on Channel 18 and 19 (Public Access). The auditorium of the old Central High School (now the Mississipppi Department of Education) was nearly full of people out to hear a distinguished panel—former Judge Fred Banks, Gov. William Winter, Robert Gibbs, Ollye Shirley, Sarah Jane Alston and Brad Pigott—talk about inequities in education, past and present. And it's worth tuning in just for the spoken-word performance of a Lanier High School junior—and to see that, contrary to The Clarion-Ledger's article the next day, the panel was about much more than the current academic woes of Lanier High School.