Law Schoolís Mack named Fletcher Fellow
Alphonse Fletcher Jr. í87, chairman and CEO of Fletcher Asset Management Inc., recently announced the selection of the 2007 class of Alphonse Fletcher Sr. Fellows, which includes Harvard Law School...
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The invention of childhood innocence
When Robin Bernstein was a little girl, she perused textbooks belonging to her mother, who was pursuing a degree in early childhood education. “Of course I didn’t understand them,” said Bernstein,...
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The golden ruling
Born the same year as the Supreme Court’s groundbreaking ruling in Brown v. Board of Education that declared segregation unconstitutional, Martha Minow saw such discrimination firsthand as a...
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Feeling the pinch
Inspired by fellow Harvard professor and author Louis Menand, Bemis Professor of International Law Noah Feldman penned a gripping history of four of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s most...
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The ripples of Brown v. Board
Martha Minow, a legal scholar and the dean of Harvard Law School (HLS), offered some advice to authors: “Write out of anger. It keeps you going.” She felt ire and dismay over commentary during the...
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Reflecting on Charles Hamilton Houston’s battle against Jim Crow
When the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed segregation in public schools on May 17, 1954, in its ruling on Brown v. Board of Education, the accolades mostly went to Thurgood Marshall, the NAACP lawyer who...
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Black educator speaks at Harvard about segregated schools’ accomplishments
Segregated Southern schools accomplished far more than history remembers, according to Vanessa Siddle Walker (Ed.M. ’85, Ed.D. ’88) president-elect of the American Educational Research Association. In...
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Artist draws inspiration from Radcliffe archives
For Tomashi Jackson, engaging with history is an artistic endeavor. The history of school desegregation became a focus of the artist’s gaze in 2014 (and of her recent campus show) as she watched...
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Rescuing the Civil Rights Movement — and children of Birmingham
Excerpted from “Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality” by Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Dean, Harvard Radcliffe Institute, Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law, and...
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