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The Dallas Bar Association seeks to assist the public in developing a better awareness and understanding of the impact that the decision has made on our lives. 

The Dallas Bar Association is partnering with The Links, Incorporated, a national organization of African American women who are strongly committed to community service.  We are requesting that local churches, educational or other institutions and facilities with bells, ring their bells on May 17, 2004 at exactly 12:52 p.m., the date and time that the Brown v. Board of Education decision was rendered. 

Along with the Dallas Bar Association, the following groups are participating in the Bell Ringing Ceremony: 

Cathedral Sanctuario de Guadalupe

Cedar Hill Independent School District

Christ Episcopal Church Dallas

Christ the King Catholic Church

Church of the Incarnation (Episcopal)

Church of the Transfiguration 

Community Presbyterian Church of Flint Michigan

Episcopal School of Dallas

First Baptist Dallas

First Presbyterian Church of Dallas

First United Methodist Church

Highland Park Presbyterian Church

Highland Park United Methodist Church

Holy Trinity by the Lake Episcopal Church (Heath, Texas)

Knox Church (Tulsa, Oklahoma)

Oak Cliff Presbyterian Church

Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church

Richland College

Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, University of Chicago

St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church

St. Elizabeth's Catholic Church

St. James Catholic Church

St. Matthew's Cathedral

St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church 

St. Pius X Catholic Church

St. Rita's Catholic Church

Thanks-Giving Square

Unity Church of Christianity

We invite you to ring your bells at 12:52 p.m. on May 17, 2004 to join us in this public observance of the 50th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education. 

Please contact Rhonda Hunter, President of the Dallas Bar Association, at rhunter@dallasbar.org or Johnese Howard, a member of The Links Incorporated and the Dallas Bar Association's 50th Anniversary Commemoration of Brown v. Board Committee, at 214-528-8288 with your response or inquiries.  Written responses may be made to the address listed below.  If you would like further information on how the Dallas Bar Association will commemorate the event please visit our Brown v. Board website at www.dallasbar.org/bvb.