Connecticut Fair Housing’s Fourth Annual
Mildred and Richard Loving Civil Rights Award Dinner,
May 31, 2012
Our 2012 Loving Civil Rights Award Honoree, Professor Manuel Pastor
Every year, we honor one national figure who we feel has contributed to the larger national dialog on housing, racial disparity or civil rights. This year we will be honoring Manuel Pastor, who, as Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of California, has done ground-breaking work and research on urban poverty, regional development and how the growing population of people of color shapes our economic future.
Past honorees have been John Relman, whose law firm recently used the fair housing laws to challenge the restrictive Alabama immigration law, john powell of the Kirwan Institute on Race and Ethnicity, and Theodore Shaw, former Director Council of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
We will also present the Edward Kennedy Advocacy Award to someone who has contributed to the progress of housing justice in Connecticut and the George Ritter Pro Bono Award to a law firm or firms, who have assisted the Center’s attorneys on an important case.
When and Where
May 31, 2012, at the Bond Hotel in downtown Hartford.