Black History month chat series
February 18, 1999
11a - 12p ET
Moderator: Leon Harris

Panelists:

Bobby Doctor is an expert on civil rights, human rights and equal opportunity issues. He is Regional Director of the Southern Regional Office for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, a federal clearinghouse on discrimination issues and an advisory board to the president on civil rights. He has served the commission in various roles since 1969.

In 1986, Doctor served as National Director of Research and Programs for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in Atlanta. In 1960, he was one of seven organizers of the South Carolina Student Sit-in Movement.

He has authored numberous publications on civil rights issues in the South, including a study on the Tuskeegee, Alabama experiments of the 1930s, during which black men suffering from syphilis were left untreated for years so the government could study the disease.

George Curry

George Curry is Editor-in-Chief of "Emerge: Black America's Newsmagazine. Under Curry's leadership, Emerge has won more than 25 national journalism awards in five years.

Curry is also vice president of the American Society of Magazine Editors and next year will become the first African-American president of that organization. He is also a regular panelist on Black Entertainment Television's "Lead Story".

(From Tamar Jacoby's homepage at the Manhattan Institute Book Program)

Tamar Jacoby

Tamar Jacoby is a journalist and author of Someone Else's House: America's Unfinished Struggle for Integration, recently released by the Free Press.

She is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and has worked on staff of the New York Review of Books, Newsweek and the New York Times, where she was deputy editor of the op-ed page. Her writings about race and other social issues have appeared in the New Republic, the New York Review of Books, Foreign Affairs, Commentary, Dissent, the Nation, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times Book Review, among other publications.

Ms. Jacoby lives and works in Montclair, New Jersey.