The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Derrick A. Bell, Jr.

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Derrick A. Bell, Jr.

12/1/2004

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2004.242

Law professor and civil rights lawyer Derrick A. Bell, Jr. (1930 - 2011 ) was recruited by Thurgood Marshall to join the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, where he oversaw three hundred school desegregation cases; he was later named Deputy Director of Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Bell later became the first African American to serve as a tenured professor at Harvard Law School, and, the first African American dean of the University of Oregon Law School. Bell was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 12/1/2004, in New York, New York. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 1; Total Tapes: 7; Total Run Time: 03h 26m 03s

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Bell, Derrick Albert, Jr., 1930-2011

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Derrick Albert Bell, Jr. was born in 1930 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and is a distinguished scholar and prolific writer on current issues, most notably civil rights in the United States. His writings and lectures have examined racism's workings in American society, and the legal remedies for racism as it is expressed in law and custom. He is or has been a member of the D.C., Pennsylvania, New York State, City of New York, and California bar associations. After serving i...