The last negroes at Harvard : the class of 1963 and the 18 young men who changed Harvard forever
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Author
Contributors
Ellsworth, Jeanne, 1951- author.
Published
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020.
Physical Desc
299 pages ; 24 cm.
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Canon City Public Library - NONFICTION | 378.1 GAR | On Shelf |
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Subjects
LC Subjects
African American college students -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge.
African Americans. -- Education, Higher -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge.
Discrimination in higher education -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
EDUCATION / Higher.
Harvard University. -- History -- 20th century.
Harvard University. -- Students -- History -- 20th century.
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
History.
African Americans. -- Education, Higher -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge.
Discrimination in higher education -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
EDUCATION / Higher.
Harvard University. -- History -- 20th century.
Harvard University. -- Students -- History -- 20th century.
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
History.
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Published
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020.
Format
Book
Street Date
2002
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description
"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 eighteen "Negro" boys as an experiment, 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, began 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 young men broke new ground. By the time they were seniors, they would have demonstrated against injustice, had lunch with Malcolm X, experienced heartbreak and the racism of academia, and joined with their African national classmates to fight for the right to form an exclusive Black students' group. Part journey into personal history, part group portrait, and part narrative history of the civil rights movement, this is the remarkable story of brilliant, singular boys whose identities were changed at and by Harvard, and who, in turn, changed Harvard"--,Provided by publisher.
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"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"--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Garrett, K., & Ellsworth, J. (2020). The last negroes at Harvard: the class of 1963 and the 18 young men who changed Harvard forever . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Garrett, Kent and Jeanne Ellsworth. 2020. The Last Negroes At Harvard: The Class of 1963 and the 18 Young Men Who Changed Harvard Forever. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Garrett, Kent and Jeanne Ellsworth. The Last Negroes At Harvard: The Class of 1963 and the 18 Young Men Who Changed Harvard Forever Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Garrett, Kent,, and Jeanne Ellsworth. The Last Negroes At Harvard: The Class of 1963 and the 18 Young Men Who Changed Harvard Forever Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020.
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