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On campus, black students protested to support the fledgling African-American studies department and the W.E.B. Dubois Institute—both of which faced administrative assaults during the Class of 1976’s time at Harvard.
In an attempt to rebuild the languishing department, Bok hired Gates as DuBois Professor of the Humanities in February 1991, three months before the search committee selected Rudenstine as Harvard’s next president.
Before Rudenstine, Gates explains, the total endowment for the DuBois Institute and the Department were “negligible.” Now, after Rudenstine’s intense fundraising efforts, the endowment is a hefty $39 million—and growing.
Gates recalls a recent chat with Rudenstine in which the president said that if the only thing he had accomplished during his time at Harvard was the growth of African American Studies and the DuBois Institute and the recruitment of African American faculty, then his tenure would have been a...
Transition Magazine, the third University magazine to be nominated, is based on a magazine founded in Uganda in 1961 to provide an outlet for Africa's leading thinkers. W.E.B. DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr. revived the publication in 1991 as an international review of politics, culture...