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SUMMARY:Civil Rights on Long Island\, 1950-1980
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DESCRIPTION:Meet Civil Rights pioneers who will describe their struggles a
 nd accomplishments to establish civil rights in the United States' first s
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>*En Espa&ntilde\;ol Debajo:</p>\n<p>Meet C
 ivil Rights pioneers who will describe their struggles and accomplishments
  to establish civil rights in the United States' first suburb.</p>\n<p>Mod
 erated by Paul Arfin\, author of Unfinished Business: Social Action In Sub
 urbia.</p>\n<p><strong>Paul Arfin</strong></p>\n<p>Over a 50+ year profess
 ional career\, Paul Arfin developed the first youth center in Suffolk Coun
 ty and the first suburban community mediation center in an American suburb
 . In the late 1960s\, he worked for the Long Island Council of Churches as
  its Migrant Community Coordinator\, advocating for the needs of migrant f
 arm laborers. He established the YMCA&rsquo\;s Family Services Division in
 tergenerational day care centers and Community Programs Center where he cr
 eated three intergenerational day care centers for child and older adults.
  A former Peace Corps volunteer in Colombia during the early 1960s\, Arfin
 &nbsp\;is an inductee of the Long Island Volunteer Hall of Fame. After ret
 iring\, Arfin&nbsp\;founded Intergenerational Strategies&nbsp\;and assiste
 d Family Service League&nbsp\;to establish HomeShare Long Island. He serve
 d as New York State coordinator for Seniors4Kids\, a program that enables 
 older adults to serve as advocates for early care education. He was an ins
 tructor at Hofstra University where he taught classes in civic engagement.
  At Dowling College\, he developed an intergenerational studies program. H
 e is author of &ldquo\;Unfinished Business: Social Action in Suburbia &nda
 sh\; Long Island NY 1945-2014&rdquo\; his memoirs\, &ldquo\;Portrait of a 
 Peace Corps Gringo.&rdquo\;</p>\n<p><strong>Panelists</strong></p>\n<p><st
 rong>Dr. Frances L. Brisbane</strong></p>\n<p>Dr. Frances Brisbane is Vice
  President for Health Sciences and Workforce Diversity at the State Univer
 sity of New York at Stony Brook. She is Dean of the Black Alcoholism and A
 ddictions Institute\, co-sponsored by the National Black Alcoholism and Ad
 dictions Council in Washington\, D.C. and The Morehouse Research Institute
  of Morehouse College.</p>\n<p>During the 1960s\, Dr. Brisbane\, gave prio
 rity to being in " every march\, every meeting" with federal\, state\, and
  local officials on issues of social justice\, elimination of poverty\, ed
 ucation literacy for everyone\, farm workers&rsquo\; rights\, etc.\, that 
 she was able to attend.</p>\n<p>Dr. Brisbane is co-founder of "Counseling 
 and Treating People of Colour: An International Perspective\," a conferenc
 e that discusses health\, mental health\, substance abuse\, AIDS\, violenc
 e\, and education across cultural lines. This conference\, now in its 24th
  year\, is the only one of its kind in the U.S. and has been held in eight
  different countries\, Puerto Rico and the states of Hawaii\, Arizona\, an
 d California.</p>\n<p>In 2007\, Dr. Brisbane received the U.S. President's
  highest honor for Service and Civic Participation. She has also received 
 the SUNY University President's Award for Excellence in Diversity and Affi
 rmative Action. Dr. Brisbane is founder and director of the School of Soci
 al Welfare's Center for Culturally Competent Education and Training. The C
 enter has trained and certified over 1500 people as being cultural compete
 nt professionals.</p>\n<p>Dr. Brisbane is a life member of the NAACP\, the
  National Urban League\, and the Community Action Network. Dr. Brisbane is
  an undergraduate of New York University\, received her MSW and MA degrees
  from Columbia University\, and Ph.D. from Union Graduate School and Unive
 rsity.</p>\n<p><strong>Janet Hanson</strong></p>\n<p>Janet Hanson moved to
  Port Jefferson in 1966 with her husband\, a one-year-old daughter and a 2
 -week-old son. She soon joined the League of Women Voters\, where she lear
 ned of the substandard housing conditions that lower-income families lived
  in and was introduced to the widespread racial discrimination that preven
 ted African American families from buying or renting housing in neighborho
 ods outside of identifiable areas. She soon became active in NAACP and joi
 ned with other efforts to seek local Open Housing ordinances in Brookhaven
  Town and its villages\, including Port Jefferson. After volunteering in t
 he housing department of the then Smith Haven Ministries\, she helped inco
 rporate that housing department into Suffolk Housing Services and served a
 s Executive Director from 1973 to 1987 and then as a private Civil Rights 
 Consultant until she retired in 2013.&nbsp\; Her primary expertise is in p
 reparing individual cases of discrimination for litigation and in preparin
 g challenges to systemic governmental discrimination such as exclusionary 
 zoning and housing policies.</p>\n<p><strong>Aldustus Jordan</strong></p>\
 n<p>Dr. Aldustus E. Jordan is Associate Dean and Clinical Associate Profes
 sor in the Stony Brook School of Medicine.&nbsp\;As a passionate advocate 
 for the role of education in fighting for racial equality and social justi
 ce\, he has been active for 50 years in developing and implementing progra
 ms that provide educational opportunity for persons in Long Island communi
 ties that have been traditionally by-passed due to racism\, segregation\, 
 and neglect. &nbsp\;He is a co-founder of ERASE Racism and its first board
  chair and &nbsp\;immediate president of Stony Brook's Black Faculty and S
 taff Association. He was also co-Principal Investigator (NIH) Community Al
 liance For Research Empowering Social Change (CARES) which trained communi
 ty residents in community participatory research techniques.</p>\n<p>Dr. J
 ordan has received numerous awards recognizing his work for children and f
 amilies including the David Award from Networking Magazine\, Long Island M
 an of the Year from the Suffolk Community Council\, and recently the Mary 
 McCleod Bethune Award in Education from the National Council of Negro Wome
 n\, Inc.- Suffolk County.</p>\n<p><strong>Marvin Colson</strong></p>\n<p>M
 arvin L. Colson is an Associate Clinical Professor\, School of Social Welf
 are\, Stony Brook University. Marvin has committed his professional and pe
 rsonal life for the ongoing struggle to fight for social justice. After re
 turning from the Vietnam War\, he experienced and lived through significan
 t discrimination and social injustice on Long Island\, specifically for th
 ose who had no voices. Marvin worked with the late\, Mr. Kenneth Anderson\
 , Mrs. Elsie Owens\, Mr. John Colson\, Mr. James Couch and other freedom f
 ighters in Suffolk County. He has been a member of the Brookhaven NAACP si
 nce 1975.</p>\n<p>Marvin was the founding Director for the Elsie Owens (Co
 ram) Health Center\, where much needed primary health services was finally
  made available to the North Brookhaven community. Marvin participated and
  joined many national and local social\, environmental and civil rights in
 itiatives to address: affordable housing\, access to quality health servic
 es\, eliminating &ldquo\;red-ling&rdquo\; in many minority communities\, t
 he inequities in the Suffolk County criminal justice system\, exclusionary
  zoning and migrant farmer&rsquo\;s advocacy.</p>\n<p>He was the first Afr
 ican American in the history of Brookhaven Town\, to be appointed the town
 &rsquo\;s Board of Zoning Appeals (where he served for over 7 years\, memb
 er\, vice chair and chair). He is still on the front line fighting for jus
 tice for all people\, and addressing civil and human rights for all people
 .</p>\n<p>------------------</p>\n<p>Conozca a pioneros de los Derechos Ci
 viles que describir&aacute\;n sus luchas y logros para establecer los dere
 chos civiles en el primer suburbio de los Estados Unidos.</p>\n<p>Moderado
  por Paul Arfin\, autor de Unfinished Business: Social Action In Suburbia.
 </p>\n<p>Pablo Arfin</p>\n<p>Durante m&aacute\;s de 50 a&ntilde\;os de car
 rera profesional\, Paul Arfin desarroll&oacute\; el primer centro juvenil 
 en el condado de Suffolk y el primer centro de mediaci&oacute\;n comunitar
 ia suburbano en un suburbio americano. A finales de la d&eacute\;cada de 1
 960\, trabaj&oacute\; para el Consejo de Iglesias de Long Island como su C
 oordinador de la Comunidad Migrante\, abogando por las necesidades de los 
 trabajadores agr&iacute\;colas migrantes. Estableci&oacute\; la Divisi&oac
 ute\;n de Servicios Familiares de la YMCA intergeneracional de guarder&iac
 ute\;as infantiles y el Centro de Programas Comunitarios donde cre&oacute\
 ; tres centros intergeneracionales de guarder&iacute\;as infantiles y para
  adultos mayores. Ex voluntario del Cuerpo de Paz en Colombia a principios
  de la d&eacute\;cada de 1960\, Arfin es un miembro del Sal&oacute\;n de l
 a Fama de Voluntarios de Long Island. Despu&eacute\;s de retirarse\, Arfin
  fund&oacute\; Intergenerational Strategies y asisti&oacute\; a Family Ser
 vice League para establecer HomeShare Long Island. Sirvi&oacute\; como coo
 rdinador del Estado de Nueva York para Seniors4Kids\, un programa que perm
 ite a los adultos mayores actuar como defensores de la educaci&oacute\;n p
 ara el cuidado temprano. Fue instructor en la Universidad Hofstra donde di
 ct&oacute\; clases de compromiso c&iacute\;vico. En Dowling College\, desa
 rroll&oacute\; un programa de estudios intergeneracionales. Es autor de "U
 nfinished Business: Social Action in Suburbia - Long Island NY 1945-2014" 
 sus memorias\,"Portrait of a Peace Corps Gringo".</p>\n<p>Panelistas</p>\n
 <p>Dr. Frances L. Brisbane</p>\n<p>La Dra. Frances Brisbane es Vicepreside
 nta de Ciencias de la Salud y Diversidad Laboral en la Universidad Estatal
  de Nueva York en Stony Brook. Es decana del Instituto de Alcoholismo y Ad
 icciones Negras\, copatrocinado por el National Black Alcoholism and Addic
 tions Council en Washington\, D. C. y el Morehouse Research Institute de M
 orehouse College.</p>\n<p>Durante la d&eacute\;cada de 1960\, la Dra. Bris
 bane dio prioridad a estar en " cada marcha\, cada reuni&oacute\;n" con fu
 ncionarios federales\, estatales y locales sobre temas de justicia social\
 , eliminaci&oacute\;n de la pobreza\, alfabetizaci&oacute\;n educativa par
 a todos\, derechos de los trabajadores agr&iacute\;colas\, etc.\, a los qu
 e pudo asistir.</p>\n<p>El Dr. Brisbane es cofundador de "Counseling and T
 reating People of Colour: An International Perspective" (Consejando y Trat
 ando a las Personas de Color: Una Perspectiva Internacional)\, una confere
 ncia que discute la salud\, la salud mental\, el abuso de sustancias\, el 
 SIDA\, la violencia y la educaci&oacute\;n a trav&eacute\;s de las l&iacut
 e\;neas culturales. Esta conferencia\, que ahora cumple 24 a&ntilde\;os\, 
 es la &uacute\;nica de su tipo en los Estados Unidos y se ha llevado a cab
 o en ocho pa&iacute\;ses diferentes\, Puerto Rico y los estados de Hawai\,
  Arizona y California.</p>\n<p>En 2007\, el Dr. Brisbane recibi&oacute\; e
 l m&aacute\;s alto honor del Presidente de los Estados Unidos por Servicio
  y Participaci&oacute\;n C&iacute\;vica. Tambi&eacute\;n ha recibido el pr
 emio SUNY University President's Award for Excellence in Diversity and Aff
 irmative Action. El Dr. Brisbane es fundador y director del Centro de Educ
 aci&oacute\;n y Capacitaci&oacute\;n Culturalmente Competente de la Escuel
 a de Bienestar Social. El Centro ha capacitado y certificado a m&aacute\;s
  de 1500 personas como profesionales competentes en cultura.</p>\n<p>El Dr
 . Brisbane es miembro vitalicio de la NAACP\, la National Urban League y l
 a Community Action Network. La Dra. Brisbane es graduada de la Universidad
  de Nueva York\, recibi&oacute\; sus t&iacute\;tulos de MSW y MA de la Uni
 versidad de Columbia\, y su doctorado de la Escuela de Graduados y la Univ
 ersidad de la Uni&oacute\;n.</p>\n<p>Janet Hanson</p>\n<p>Janet Hanson se 
 mud&oacute\; a Port Jefferson en 1966 con su esposo\, una hija de un a&nti
 lde\;o y un hijo de dos semanas. Pronto se uni&oacute\; a la Liga de Mujer
 es Votantes\, donde se enter&oacute\; de las condiciones de vivienda defic
 ientes en las que viv&iacute\;an las familias de bajos ingresos y fue intr
 oducida a la discriminaci&oacute\;n racial generalizada que imped&iacute\;
 a a las familias afroamericanas comprar o alquilar viviendas en vecindario
 s fuera de &aacute\;reas identificables. Pronto se convirti&oacute\; en ac
 tiva en NAACP y se uni&oacute\; a otros esfuerzos para buscar ordenanzas l
 ocales de vivienda abierta en Brookhaven Town y sus aldeas\, incluyendo Po
 rt Jefferson. Despu&eacute\;s de ser voluntaria en el departamento de vivi
 enda del entonces Ministerio Smith Haven\, ayud&oacute\; a incorporar ese 
 departamento de vivienda en Suffolk Housing Services y sirvi&oacute\; como
  Directora Ejecutiva de 1973 a 1987 y luego como Consultora Privada de Der
 echos Civiles hasta que se jubil&oacute\; en 2013. Su principal experienci
 a es en la preparaci&oacute\;n de casos individuales de discriminaci&oacut
 e\;n para litigios y en la preparaci&oacute\;n de desaf&iacute\;os a la di
 scriminaci&oacute\;n sist&eacute\;mica gubernamental\, como la zonificaci&
 oacute\;n excluyente y las pol&iacute\;ticas de vivienda.</p>\n<p>Aldustus
  Jordania</p>\n<p>El Dr. Aldustus E. Jordan es Decano Asociado y Profesor 
 Asociado Cl&iacute\;nico en la Escuela de Medicina Stony Brook.&nbsp\;Como
  apasionado defensor del papel de la educaci&oacute\;n en la lucha por la 
 igualdad racial y la justicia social\, ha sido activo durante 50 a&ntilde\
 ;os en el desarrollo e implementaci&oacute\;n de programas que ofrecen opo
 rtunidades educativas a las personas en las comunidades de Long Island que
  tradicionalmente han sido eludidas debido al racismo\, la segregaci&oacut
 e\;n y el abandono. &nbsp\;Es cofundador de ERASE Racism y su primer presi
 dente de la junta directiva y presidente inmediato de Stony Brook's Black 
 Faculty and Staff Association. Tambi&eacute\;n fue co-investigador princip
 al (NIH) de Community Alliance for Research Empowering Social Change (CARE
 S) que capacit&oacute\; a los residentes de la comunidad en t&eacute\;cnic
 as de investigaci&oacute\;n participativa comunitaria.</p>\n<p>El Dr. Jord
 an ha recibido numerosos premios que reconocen su trabajo para los ni&ntil
 de\;os y las familias\, incluyendo el premio David de la revista Networkin
 g Magazine\, Long Island Man of the Year del Consejo Comunitario de Suffol
 k\, y recientemente el premio Mary McCleod Bethune Award in Education del 
 National Council of Negro Women\, Inc. de Suffolk County.</p>\n<p>Marvin C
 olson</p>\n<p>Marvin L. Colson es Profesor Cl&iacute\;nico Asociado\, Escu
 ela de Bienestar Social\, Universidad Stony Brook. Marvin ha dedicado su v
 ida profesional y personal a la lucha constante para luchar por la justici
 a social. Despu&eacute\;s de regresar de la guerra de Vietnam\, experiment
 &oacute\; y vivi&oacute\; una significativa discriminaci&oacute\;n e injus
 ticia social en Long Island\, espec&iacute\;ficamente para aquellos que no
  ten&iacute\;an voz. Marvin trabaj&oacute\; con el difunto Sr. Kenneth And
 erson\, la Sra. Elsie Owens\, el Sr. John Colson\, el Sr. James Couch y ot
 ros luchadores por la libertad en el condado de Suffolk. Es miembro de la 
 NAACP de Brookhaven desde 1975.</p>\n<p>Marvin fue el Director fundador de
 l Centro de Salud Elsie Owens (Coram)\, donde finalmente se pusieron a dis
 posici&oacute\;n de la comunidad de North Brookhaven los servicios de salu
 d primaria que tanto se necesitaban. Marvin particip&oacute\; y se uni&oac
 ute\; a muchas iniciativas sociales\, ambientales y de derechos civiles a 
 nivel nacional y local para abordar: vivienda asequible\, acceso a servici
 os de salud de calidad\, eliminar la "red-ling" en muchas comunidades mino
 ritarias\, las inequidades en el sistema de justicia penal del condado de 
 Suffolk\, la zonificaci&oacute\;n excluyente y la defensa de los agriculto
 res migrantes.</p>\n<p>Fue el primer afroestadounidense en la historia de 
 Brookhaven Town\, que fue nombrado Junta de Apelaciones de Zonificaci&oacu
 te\;n de la ciudad (donde sirvi&oacute\; por m&aacute\;s de 7 a&ntilde\;os
 \, miembro\, vicepresidente y presidente). Todav&iacute\;a est&aacute\; en
  primera l&iacute\;nea luchando por la justicia para todas las personas y 
 haciendo frente a los derechos civiles y humanos de todas las personas.</p
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