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...Bell had left Cambridge in 1980 to become the dean of the University of Oregon Law School, and the BLSA wanted Vorenberg to find a tenured black professor to teach the popular race theory course, “Constitutional Law and Minority Issues,” that Bell had taught...
...Even before the new school year began, a letter arrived on Vorenberg’s desk from the BLSA—an “articulation of our frustrations,” said Donald Christopher Tyler, who was a member of the executive committee of the BLSA...
...letter, the BLSA threatened to lead a boycott of the new course in order to get the administration’s attention. In response, Vorenberg penned a missive to the school’s returning students and enclosed the BLSA letter as well...
...Tyler said that no one in BLSA saw Kenyatta’s letter before it was sent...
...That period saw the rise of Kenyatta, who entered the Law School in 1980. An unusual student and tireless activist by most accounts, Kenyatta took the helm of the Black Law Students Association (BLSA) at the end of his second year and injected a social and political bent into the 15-year-old organization...