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Carlotta Walls Lanier was a fourteen-year-old student in Little Rock, Arkansas when she and eight others made history on September 25, 1957 as the “Little Rock Nine.” At the time, Little Rock’s Central High School was one of the nation’s best academic institutions but followed a white only policy of segregation. Nine brave teenagers volunteered to be the first black students willing to confront the need for integration in America’s schools. Facing the taunts of angry mobs which made a military escort into the building necessary, Walls Lanier would face three-years of turmoil and an attempted bombing of her home. In her memoir, A Mighty Long Way, My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School, Carlotta’s inspired recollection describes the sacrifices families and communities made to achieve justice, and how one person can make a difference in the lives of others. Walls Lanier, a graduate of Colorado State University, now the University of Northern Colorado, received the Congressional Medal of Honor and two honorary doctorate degrees continues to remain active in the area of community activism. | |
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Sheldon Steinhauser, president of Sheldon Steinhauser & Associates, has a long record of achievement in the fields of human rights, education, age diversity and community wellbeing. Steinhauser’s accomplishments include service as the Director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), Director of the Allied Jewish Federation, and Associate Professor of Sociology at Metropolitan State College of Denver. A Denver resident since 1957, Steinhauser is regarded as an authority on ageism and on age discrimination in the workplace. As ADL Director, he spearheaded educational campaigns that led to the passage of Colorado’s landmark Fair Housing Act, helped coordinate efforts to mobilize statewide support for the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and was a member of the Colorado delegation that joined Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965. | |
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Dr. Ellie Greenberg, has more than 50 years experience as a speech pathologist, civil rights activist, community development professional, and adult educator. She has been the founding director of many innovative undergraduate and graduate degree programs for returning adult students. Her research is in adult development and learning. She is the author of Weaving: The Fabric of a Woman’s Life (1991) and co-author of In Our Fifties: Voices of Men and Women Reinventing Their Lives (1993). Her most recent book, A Time of Our Own: In Celebration of Women Over Sixty (2008), has been on the Denver Post's Best Sellers list (Non-fiction Paperback) twice. Dr. Greenberg received the MESA Service Award from Colorado MESA in June 2006. Greenberg serves on the MESA Board of Directors and its Resource Development Committee. She is responsible for establishing the pilot MESA/AHEC Health Careers Initiative, in partnership with the statewide Colorado Area Health Education Center (AHEC) System. |
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 From left front: Elizabeth Eckford and Minnijean Brown Trickey; back left: Gloria Ray Karlmark, Terrence Roberts, Carlotta Walls LaNier and Ernest Green. Photo: Marquette University Tuesday, February 9, 2010 at the Pere Marquette Discovery Award ceremony. |
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