For Immediate Release

	May 11, 2004 PRESIDENT CLYDE BAILEY KEYNOTE SPEAKER FOR MONROE COUNTY (NEW YORK) BAR ASSOCIATION LAW DAY PROGRAM ON APRIL 30, 2004 National Bar Association (“NBA”) President Clyde Bailey was keynote speaker at the Law Day Program, commemorating Brown v. Board, of the Monroe County Bar Association (MCBA) held at the Rochester Convention Center, Rochester, New York. The theme for the luncheon and awards program, co-sponsored by the Greater Rochester Association of Women Attorneys and the Rochester Black Bar Association, the local NBA Affiliate, was “To Win Equality by Law: Brown v. Board at 50.” The Honorable Judge Roy King, a member of the Rochester Black Bar Association, received the prestigious 2004 Foundation Humanitarian Award. NBA General Counsel T. Andrew Brown was on the dais along with County Executive Maggie Brooks and other distinguished judges, honorees and local government officials. In his address, President Bailey focused on some remaining challenges and opportunities to ensure that the Brown decision will have lasting significance. According to President Bailey, “we [civic leaders, lawyers and bar associations] need to get real about those socio-economic and legal factors in our communities that present undue burdens and insurmountable challenges for our youth in their pursuit of success in a society that, in most instances, appear more threatening than nurturing.” The National Bar Association was founded in 1925 and is the oldest and largest bar association of people of color in the world. It has 88 affiliate chapters and represents over 20,000 African American lawyers, judges and law students throughout the world. President Bailey’s complete keynote address.