Welcome to We The People, a weekly show of constitutional debate.

I'm Lana Ulrich, director of content at the National Constitution Center, Jeffrey Rosen is away this week.

The National Constitution Center is a nonpartisan nonprofit institution chartered by Congress

to increase awareness and understanding of the Constitution among the American people.

This past Monday at the NCC, we celebrated Martin Luther King Junior Day with service projects

and performances, including a live reading of Dr King's famous I Have a Dream Speech.

In this episode of We The People, we continue the celebration as I sit down with Professor's Ted Shaw and Michael

Clarmon to discuss Dr. King's constitutional legacy. We'll discuss his life and work, his constitutional vision and his contributions

to civil rights laws in the Constitution, including the legacy of the landmark civil rights laws

he fought so hard to pass. I'm honored to be joined

by these two leading Civil Rights and Constitutional Scholars who both appeared in the

NCC C-SPAN Landmark Cases episode on Plessy versus Ferguson, which I encourage all of our

listeners to check out after the show at c-span.org.

Michael Clarmon is the Kirkland and Ellis professor at Harvard Law School, specializing

in constitutional law and constitutional history. as Professor

Klamin's

Klamin's first book, From Jim Crow to Civil Rights,

the Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality,

received the 2005 Bancroft Prize in history.

His other books include Brown versus Board of Education and the Civil Rights Movement

and unfinished business, racial equality in American history.

Mike, thank you so much for joining. Thanks for having me, Lana. Ted

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