Word: belle
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Right from the start, Bell was different. As someone who had graduated from a regional law school, had not worked on his school's law review and had not clerked for a Supreme Court justice, his credentials, on paper, were not the sort sought after by the Law School. In 1964, and again in 1966, when Bell applied for teaching positions at Harvard, he was turned down...
After the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., when Harvard law students began agitating for a minority faculty member, Bell was suddenly hired, the first minority to hold a tenured post at the Law School. He became a Harvard institution, serving as a role model to generations of law students...
...return to Harvard in 1987 from Oregon, Bell became immediately mired in controversy. He staged a five-day sit-in at his office, protesting the school's refusal to offer tenure to members of the Critical Legal Studies movement, a group of radical scholars who feel that the legal system perpetuates the wrongs of the establishment...
Despite a continuing interest in hiring issues, Bell was never offered a position on the Appointments Committee. But he persistently goaded the Law School establishment, pushing for greater faculty diversity...
...frustrated over the lack of a tenured minority woman on the Law School's faculty, Bell announced that he would take leave until the situation was remedied...