Quote of the day
That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war.
Derrick Bell
Born: November 6, 1930
Died: October 5, 2011 (aged 80)
Bio: 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. He was a visiting professor at New York University School of Law from 1991 until his death.
Known for:
- Faces at the Bottom of the Well (1992)
- And we are not saved (1987)
- Race, racism, and American law (1973)
- Silent Covenants (2004)