LEWISTON – Juan Williams, senior correspondent for National Public Radio’s “Morning Edition” will speak on “The Legacy of Brown vs. the Board of Education” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 12, in the Bates College Chapel. The public is invited free of charge.

Part of a yearlong series of events examining the legacy of the 1954 Supreme Court case outlawing segregation in public schools, the event is sponsored by the law firm of Skelton Taintor & Abbott, the Harward Center for Community Partnership at Bates and the College Lectures Committee.

Author of “Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary,” Williams also wrote the nonfiction bestseller “Eyes on the Prize: American’s Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965,” the companion volume to the notable television series. His book “This Far by Faith: Stories from the African American Religious Experience” (2003) provided the basis for a six-part public television documentary. In 2004, Williams led a team of reporters and editors in the production of “My Soul Looks Back in Wonder: Voices of the Civil Rights Experience,” accounts of 50 activists from the civil rights movement.

During his 21-year career with The Washington Post, Williams served as an editorial writer, Op-Ed columnist and White House reporter.