Civil Rights Advocate Vanita Gupta Describes the 'momentum to Hope' in Richman Lecture
March 07, 2018
March 07, 2018
WALTHAM, Massachusetts, March 7 -- Brandeis University issued the following news release:
When she was 26 years old, in an unfamiliar small town in north Texas, a seed of hope was planted in Vanita Gupta.
It was 2001, and Gupta, fresh out of law school, joined the Legal Defense Fund and set out to Tulia, Texas from New York City to look into a police sting that resulted in the arrest of 40 African-Americans -- 10 percent of the town's black population -- on drug ch . . .
When she was 26 years old, in an unfamiliar small town in north Texas, a seed of hope was planted in Vanita Gupta.
It was 2001, and Gupta, fresh out of law school, joined the Legal Defense Fund and set out to Tulia, Texas from New York City to look into a police sting that resulted in the arrest of 40 African-Americans -- 10 percent of the town's black population -- on drug ch . . .