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photo by Alan Karchmer The National Museum of African American History and Culture PRSRT STD Riverside US POSTAGE County LAWYER PAID PERMIT #1054 Riverside County Bar Association RIVERSIDE, CA 4129 Main St., Ste. 100, Riverside, CA 92501 RCBA 951-682-1015 LRS 951-682-7520 February 2018 • Volume 68 Number 2 MAGAZINE www.riversidecountybar.com [email protected] In This Issue The National Museum of African American History and Culture The Lynching of Jesse Washington Area Leaders Kick Off Civil Rights Institute Project The Shaw Memorial at the National Gallery of Art Bias in the Legal Community: How Diversity Benefits Us All Omar Stratton and the History of the Riverside Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) The Official Publication of the Riverside County Bar Association Publications Committee Sophia Choi Boyd Jensen Julianna Crawford Robyn Lewis Donald Cripe Jennifer Lynch Melissa Cushman Juanita Mantz Megan Demshki Chad Morgan CONTENTS DW Duke Charlene Nelson Abram Feuerstein Stefanie Field Nesa Targhibi Alexandra Fong Mohammad Tehrani Betty Fracisco Jamie Wrage Amy Guldner Lisa Yang Editor ............................................. Jacqueline Carey-Wilson Columns: Copy Editors ..................... Yoginee Braslaw & Juanita Mantz 3 ....................... President’s Message by L. Alexandra Fong Design and Production ........................ PIP Printing Riverside Cover Design ..... Alan Karchmer/National Museum of African 4 ... Barristers President’s Message by Shumika T. R. Sookdeo American History and Culture Officers of the Bar Association President President-Elect COVER STORIES: L. Alexandra Fong Jeffrey A. Van Wagenen, Jr. (951) 955-6300 (951) 529-4092 6 ....................................... The Lynching of Jesse Washington [email protected] [email protected] by DW Duke Vice President Chief Financial Officer Jack B. Clarke, Jr. Sophia H. Choi 8 ..............Area Leaders Kick Off Civil Rights Institute Project (951) 686-1450 (951) 955-6300 by Dawn Hassett [email protected] [email protected] Secretary Past President 10 ........................... The National Museum of African American Nicholas Firetag Jean-Simon Serrano (951) 684-2171 (951) 682-6400 History and Culture [email protected] [email protected] by DW Duke Directors-at-Large 12 .................The Shaw Memorial at the National Gallery of Art Stefanie G. Field Lori Myers by Abram S. Feuerstein (951) 684-2171 (949) 300-3596 [email protected] [email protected] 16 ...............................................Bias in the Legal Community: Jennifer Lynch Matthew Strickroth (951) 686-1450 (951) 955-5400 How Diversity Benefits Us All [email protected] [email protected] by Casey R. Johnson Executive Director 20 ........ Omar Stratton and the History of the Riverside Branch Charlene Nelson (951) 682-1015 of the National Association for the Advancement of [email protected] Colored People (NAACP) Officers of the Barristers Association by Waudieur “Woodie” Rucker-Hughes President Treasurer Shumika T. R. Sookdeo Nesa Targhibi Features: (951) 683-3974 [email protected] Members-at-Large Kris Daams 18 .......... Riverside County Bar Association Proposed 2018 Budget President-Elect Megan Demshki Breanne Wesche Braden Holly Paul Lin Secretary Priscilla George Past President 22 .........................Opposing Counsel: Shumika Robinson Sookdeo Erica Alfaro by Betty Fracisco Riverside County Bar Association 4129 Main Street, Suite 100 Riverside, California 92501 Telephone Facsimile Departments: 951-682-1015 951-682-0106 Internet E-mail Calendar .................. 2 Membership .............. 24 www.riversidecountybar.com [email protected] Classified Ads ............. 24 Riverside Lawyer, February 2018 1 MISSION STATEMENT CALENDAR Established in 1894 FEBRUARY 8 Riverside County Mock Trial Competition (Round 1) The Riverside County Bar Association, established in 1894 to foster Riverside, Indio, Southwest Courts – 5:30 p.m. social inter ac tion between the bench and bar, is a professional or ga ni- 9 Bridging the Gap 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. zation that provides con tinu ing education and offers an arena to resolve RCBA Gabbert Gallery 12 Court Holiday – Lincoln’s Birthday various prob lems that face the justice system and attorneys prac tic ing in RCBA Offices Closed Riverside County. 15 Riverside County Mock Trial Competition (Round 2) Hall of Justice – 5:30 p.m. 19 Court Holiday – Presidents’ Day RCBA Mission Statement RCBA Offices Closed 20 Family Law Section Meeting The mission of the Riverside County Bar Association is: Noon – 1:15 p.m. To serve our members, our communities, and our legal system. RCBA Gabbert Gallery Topic: “The State of the Family Law Court” Speaker: Judge Dale Wells MCLE Membership Benefits 21 Estate Planning, Probate & Elder Law Section Noon – 1:00 p.m. Involvement in a variety of legal entities: Lawyer Referral Service RCBA Gabbert Gallery Topic: “Estate Planning with the New Tax (LRS), Riverside Legal Aid, Fee Ar bi tra tion, Client Re la tions, Dis pute Regulation” Speaker: Joseph W. Walloch, CPA, CGMA, MBA, Res o lu tion Ser vice (DRS), Barristers, Leo A. Deegan Inn of Court, Mock MBT Trial, State Bar Confer ence of Dele gates, Bridg ing the Gap, and the RCBA MCLE Joint Inland Empire Inns of Court Meeting - Riverside Superior Court New Attorney Academy. 5:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Guest Speaker: Carl Douglas Membership meetings monthly (except July and August) with key note Location: California Citrus State Historic Park, Sunkist Center, 9400 Dufferin Ave, Riverside speak ers, and par tic i pa tion in the many committees and sections. $75 per person Eleven issues of Riverside Lawyer published each year to update you RSVP by Feb. 12 to [email protected] 22 Riverside County Mock Trial Competition (Round 3) on State Bar matters, ABA issues, local court rules, open forum for com- Hall of Justice – 5:30 p.m. 23 General Membership Meeting mu ni ca tion, and timely busi ness matters. Noon – 1:15 p.m. Social gatherings throughout the year: Installation of RCBA and RCBA Gabbert Gallery 24 Riverside County Mock Trial Competition (Round 4) Bar risters Of fic ers din ner, Law Day ac tiv i ties, Good Citizenship Award Hall of Justice – 9:00 a.m. Mock Trial Awards Ceremony – 2:00 p.m. ceremony for Riv er side Coun ty high schools, and other special activities. Bourns Technology Center Continuing Legal Education brown bag lunches and section work- 26 Joint MCLE by CLE Committee and Environmental Law Section shops. RCBA is a cer ti fied provider for MCLE programs. Noon – 1:15 p.m. RCBA Gabbert Gallery Speaker: Charity Schiller Topic: “Environmental Writ Litigation: The California Environmental Quality Act, administra- tive records, and the potential admission of extra- The Riverside Lawyer is published 11 times per year by the Riverside County record evidence in CCP 1094.5 and 1085 actions” Bar Association (RCBA) and is distributed to RCBA members, Riverside County judges and administrative officers of the court, community leaders MARCH and others interested in the advancement of law and justice. Advertising and 1 Riverside County Mock Trial Competition – Elite 8 Round an nounce ments are due by the 6th day of the month preceding publications Hall of Justice – 5:30 p.m. (e.g., October 6 for the November issue). Articles are due no later than 45 3 Riverside County Mock Trial Competition (Semi- days preceding publi ca tion. All articles are subject to editing. 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Independent research of all issues is strongly encouraged. 2 Riverside Lawyer, February 2018 In 2003, the 108th Congress passed the National Museum of African American History and Culture Act, which established the National Museum of African American History and Culture within the Smithsonian Institution. This new museum was to be operated as a center for scholarship and a location for museum training, public education, exhibits, and collection and study of items and materi- als relating to the life, art, history, and culture of African Americans that encompass the period of slavery, the era of reconstruction, the Harlem renaissance, the civil rights movement, and other periods of the African American diaspora.3 The National Museum of African American History and Culture is the only national museum devoted exclusively to the documentation by L. Alexandra Fong of African American life, history, and culture. To date, the Museum This month’s theme of Riverside Lawyer is has collected more than 36,000 artifacts and nearly 100,000 indi- viduals have become charter members. The Museum opened to the Black History. Black History Month or African public on September 24, 2016, as the 19th and newest museum of the American History Month is an annual cel- Smithsonian Institution.4 ebration of achievements by black Americans Here, in Riverside County, we have had our fair share of firsts. and a time for recognizing the central role of Richard T. Fields was the first African American jurist in Riverside African Americans in U.S. history. The event County when he was appointed commissioner in 1991. He became the grew out of “Negro History Week,” the brain- first African-American judge in Riverside County in April 2000, when child of noted historian Carter G.