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ATLANTA, September 23, 2004--The Leadership
Center at Morehouse College presents The Coca-Cola
Leadership Lecture Series, featuring Attorney
Derrick Bell, who will speak on “The Ethical
Dilemma in Affirmative Action Status.” Bell
is well known for his compelling and uncompromising
voice on issues of race and class in American
society. Throughout his 40-year career as a lawyer,
activist, teacher and writer, he has provoked
his critics and challenged his readers with original
and progressive views.
Who:
Attorney Derrick Bell
What:
The Coca-Cola Leadership Lecture Series
| When:
Tuesday, October 5, 2004 |
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7:00
p.m. |
| Where:
Sale Hall Chapel |
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(on
the campus of Morehouse College) |
In
1971, attorney Derrick Bell became the first black
tenured professor at the Harvard Law School. He
relinquished that position in 1992 when he refused
to return from a two-year unpaid leave of absence
he took to protest the lack of women of color
on the faculty at Harvard. In another personal
protest in 1980, Bell left Harvard for five years
to accept the deanship at the Oregon Law School.
Bell left the post when the faculty directed that
he not extend an offer to an Asian American woman
faculty candidate.
Bell
is also an accomplished author, having written
several books including his latest titled, Silent
Covenants: Brown v. Board and the Quest for Racial
Justice (2004), Oxford University Press. His other
books include: Ethical Ambition: Living a Life
of Meaning and Worth (2002), We Are Not Saved:
The Exclusive Quest for Racial Justice (1987);
Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence
of Racism (1992), Confronting Authority: Reflections
of an Ardent Protester (1994), Gospel Choirs,
Psalms of Survival in Alien Land Called Home (1996);
and Afrolantica Legacies (1998).
His
civil rights books include Race, Racism &
American Law, first published in 1973, is now
in its 5th Edition (2004); and a constitutional
law text, Constitutional Conflicts (1997).
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