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Celebrate AAPI Heritage Month
The Asian Heritage employee resource group (ERG) hosts the Living and Learning in Asia virtual discussion from noon to 1 p.m. on Monday, May 20. Houston Methodist Senior Training Specialist Dr. Marshall Getz, Asian Heritage ERG’s community engagement coordinator, leads the discussion that is part of the celebration of May’s designation as Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month. For a link to the event and more information, contact asianheritage@houstonmethodist.org.
Veterans Alliance ERG Honors Memorial Day
The Veterans Alliance ERG will have a Memorial Day Table display at each hospital, as well as JRB and Greenbriar from May 21 – May 28. A bowl of red poppy flower pins will be available for anyone to take. Wearing a red poppy flower or poppy flower pin symbolizes remembrance for those who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country.
May is National Military Appreciation Month (NMAM). The designation was established in 1999 to recognize the service and sacrifice of the men and women of the U.S. Armed Forces, including spouses and children of current service members and veterans.
Brown v. Board of Education Anniversary
May 17 marks the 70th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s historic Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas decision. On May 17, 1954, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren delivered the unanimous ruling in the landmark civil rights case. Thurgood Marshall who in 1967 became the first African American Supreme Court justice, led a team of NAACP attorneys in successfully arguing that state-sanctioned segregation of public schools was unconstitutional because it is a violation of the 14th amendment.
This decision signaled the end of the “separate but equal” precedent set by the Supreme Court nearly 60 years earlier in Plessy v. Ferguson and influenced the expanding civil rights movement during the 1950s. Texas Southern University named its law school in Marshall’s honor.
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