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The Last Negroes at Harvard: The Class of 1963 and the 18 Young Men Who Changed Harvard Forever: The Class of 1963 and the 18 Young Men Who Changed ... Integration, Affirmative Action, and Identity - Hardcover

Garrett, Kent; Ellsworth, Jeanne

 
9781328879974: The Last Negroes at Harvard: The Class of 1963 and the 18 Young Men Who Changed Harvard Forever: The Class of 1963 and the 18 Young Men Who Changed ... Integration, Affirmative Action, and Identity
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1328879976 ISBN 13: 9781328879974
Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

The untold story of the Harvard class of ’63, whose Black students fought to create their own identities on the cusp between integration and affirmative action.

In the fall of 1959, Harvard recruited an unprecedented eighteen “Negro” boys as an early form of affirmative action. Four years later they would graduate as African Americans. Some fifty years later, one of these trailblazing Harvard grads, Kent Garrett, would begin to reconnect with his classmates and explore their vastly different backgrounds, lives, and what their time at Harvard meant.

Garrett and his partner Jeanne Ellsworth recount how these eighteen youths broke new ground, with ramifications that extended far past the iconic Yard. By the time they were seniors, they would have demonstrated against national injustice and grappled with the racism of academia, had dinner with Malcolm X and fought alongside their African national classmates for the right to form a Black students’ organization.
Part memoir, part group portrait, and part narrative history of the intersection between the civil rights movement and higher education, this is the remarkable story of brilliant, singular boys whose identities were changed at and by Harvard, and who, in turn, changed Harvard.
 

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

KENT GARRETT graduated from Harvard in 1963. He has had a thirty-year award-winning career in television news and documentaries.
JEANNE ELLSWORTH has a PhD in social foundations of education from the University of Buffalo. She received the AACTE Outstanding Writing Award in 1995.

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Verlag
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1328879976
ISBN 13 
9781328879974
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
320
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