Word: belle
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Weld Professor of Law Derrick Bell would certainly agree with my "less is more" logic. In fact, he inspired it. In April 1990, he took a leave of absence and vowed not to return until a Black female professor was hired...
INSTEAD OF suing HLS, however, CCR should sue Bell. If one more Black professor would be such an increase in diversity that it's worth taking a leave of absence, then the absence of one more Black professor--i.e., Bell--is such a decrease in diversity that someone should be protesting his decision...
...shortly after that, Weld Professor of Law Derrick A. Bell Jr. announced he would not return to the school next year. In spring of 1990, Bell took an unpaid leave of absence from his post, saying he would return when the school tenured a Black woman...
...Though Bell requested an extension of his leave of absence--two years being the standard limit--President Neil L. Rudenstine said that Bell would have to do what he believed to be right but that he did not see a reason to waive the limit...
...have known great men and women who by theirsacrifices...have carried the human family toanother level," Jackson said. "Dr. Derrick Bell isin that class," he said...