DETROIT – U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is spoke Monday at the groundbreaking for a center for civil rights studies at Wayne State University.
DETROIT – U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is spoke Monday at the groundbreaking for a center for civil rights studies at Wayne State University.
The event was held at the Detroit campus. The center is named for 87-year-old Judge Damon Keith of the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Cincinnati.
The university says its law school has received gifts from the Henry Ford II Fund, the Edsel B. Ford II Fund and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation for creation of the Damon Keith Center for Civil Rights. The school says a 2006 gift from A. Alfred Taubman also will finance the 10,000-square-foot center.
Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm is a former law clerk to Keith, who administered the oath of office to her in 2003.
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