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Derrick Albert Bell Jr. (November 6, 1930 – October 5, 2011) was an American lawyer, legal scholar, and civil rights activist. Bell first worked for the U.S. Justice Department, then the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, where he supervised over 300 school desegregation cases in Mississippi.
Oct 8, 2011 · Derrick A. Bell Jr., a onetime civil rights lawyer whose provocative ideas about race and the law made him one of the country’s most influential legal thinkers and led to his dismissal from the...
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After a valiant battle with cancer, Derrick Bell died on October 5, 2011. In Derrick was an incredibly spiritual man with a deep appreciation for gospel music. As such, it is only fitting that a biblical verse sums up the extraordinary life of Derrick Bell: “Well done, my good and faithful servant.”
Oct 25, 2024 · Derrick Bell was a 1957 graduate of Pitt’s School of Law, where he served as associate editor-in-chief of the University of Pittsburgh Law Review. Bell was the first tenured Black professor at Harvard Law School and later one of the first Black deans of a law school that was not historically Black.
Nov 15, 2013 · Derrick Bell Jr. died on October 5, 2011, at the age of 80, in St. Luke’s Hospital in New York City. He was survived by his second wife, Janet Dewart Bell.
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Oct 5, 2011 · Derrick Albert Bell Jr. was the first tenured African-American professor of law at Harvard Law School and is largely credited as one of the originators of critical race theory (CRT). He was a visiting professor at New York University School of Law from 1991 until his death.
