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   Who was Derrick Bell?

   • "Derrick A. Bell, legal scholar who developed theories on race, dies at 80". Washington Post. ^ Derrick Bell Obituary 11/6/1930 – 10/5/2011 AP 2011. Legacy.com 2012. Retrieved March 17, 2012 ^ Bell, Janet Dewart (Spring 2013). "In Memory of Professor Derrick Bell". Seattle University Law Review. 36 (3): ii. ^ Chavis, Diane Hernon (March 25, 2013).

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   Is Derrick Bell still angry?

   • "Raising Hell for a Cause : Education: Two years after Harvard Law's first tenured black professor left his job to protest the lack of faculty diversity, little has changed. Derrick Bell's still angry, and so are his critics". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 30, 2023.

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   Who was Derek Bok?

   • Derek Bok, the dean of the school, promised Bell that he would be “the first but not the last” of his Black hires. In 1971, Bok was made the president of the university, and Bell became Harvard Law’s first Black tenured professor. He began creating courses that explored the nexus of civil rights and the law—a departure from traditional pedagogy.

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   What was Bell's critique of racial law?

   • Bell's critique represented a challenge to the dominant liberal and conservative position on civil rights, race and the law. He employed three major arguments in his analyses of racial patterns in American law: constitutional contradiction, the interest convergence principle, and the price of racial remedies.

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   Was Derrick a community builder or an iconoclast?

   • But Derrick was both an iconoclast and a community builder. When he was opening up this path, it was not just for him. It was for all those who he knew would follow into the legal academy.” “He has left a trail of immeasurable scholarship,” said HLS Professor Charles Ogletree ’78 of his former professor, his mentor and his friend.

   Derrick Bell (1930-2011) - Harvard Law School

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   Who is Bell's alter ego?

   • A Black female lawyer named Geneva Crenshaw, the protagonist of many of the stories, serves as Bell’s alter ego. (Bell later told Kimberlé Crenshaw that he had “borrowed” her surname for the character, who was a composite of Black women lawyers who had influenced his thinking.)

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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.

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   Derrick Bell, a distinguished legal scholar, prolific writer and tireless champion for equality, died Oct. 5. He helped to develop critical race theory, a body of legal scholarship that explores how racism is embedded in laws and legal institutions.

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   Sep 13, 2021 · As an attorney, Derrick Bell worked on many civil-rights cases, but his doubts about their impact launched a groundbreaking school of thought.

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   Biography of Professor Derrick Bell. The Early Years: The Making of the Intellectual and Activist. Derrick Albert Bell, Jr. was born on November 6, 1930 in Pittsburgh, the eldest of four children. At an early age, Derrick’s parents, Ada Elizabeth Childress Bell, a homemaker, and Derrick A. Bell, Sr., a millworker and department store porter ...

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   Sep 6, 2022 · Derrick Albert Bell Jr. was a lawyer, law professor, and legal scholar best known for his legal advocacy as part of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and skepticism regarding the limits of the Civil Rights Movement and the possibilities of substantive racial justice generally.

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   Oct 6, 2011 · Derrick Bell, a legal scholar who saw persistent racism in America and sought to expose it through books, articles and provocative career moves — he gave up a Harvard Law School professorship...

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    Nov 4, 2021 · In a 1990 photograph, Derrick Bell, the first tenured Black professor at Harvard Law School, speaks into six microphones as a crowd of students rally behind him. Some students stare down the...