ms. goodwin. you grew up in brooklyn and you love the brooklyn dodgers that the personality of that whole brooklyn dodger team was the great jackie robinson. i am wondering if you would think of that subject but i think you would be the person to do that. >> no question he was like you are on the brooklyn dodgers. i would like to believe it was because i was a young civil rights advocate but i think it was more when i was five or six years old that he would get on race and steal second and then he would steal third and steal home and completely rattled the other pitchers. he was such an exciting vital player. in fact all of my childhood i kept wanting to get his autograph. i never could get it. you guys get them at the park in those days. you could pay for them but you had to wait in lines in his line would be long. finally when i was in all awesome -- adolescent i brought my autograph book for him. in those days women will remember we have these stupid autograph books where it was say i will love

goodwined for alfred t in the u.s. court of appeals for the ninth circuit. ms.amirez graduated from harvard law school, cum laude, she served as editor as the harvard law review. she holds an aba in history magna cum laude, from harvard university. i am honored to introduce to you the chairwoman you through various -- edith rimer is -- edith ramirez. [applause] >> thank you. thank you, maria, for that generous introduction. mbalso want to thank the h latino commission for inviting me. i am delighted to be here today. washington celebrating the 50th anniversary of the passage of the civil rights act. and honoring the latino lawyers, past come present, and future, whose struggles and successes represent the vitality and the brood of the civil rights movement. congratulations to our honorees. carmen. tiz and you are a credit to the lawyers about whom professor atencio will be talking about after lunch. congratulations for putting on such a terrific conference. respectful of those who brought us where we are today. inspiring to those of us who seek to leave now. and