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“In conversation with him he was very warm and approachable,” Eric R. Rosenbaum ’01 said of Epps while he was dean.
One of the most prominent black administrators at the College, Epps attempted to facilitate race relations on campus. While a teaching fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies in 1964, he examined in a piece published in The Crimson how the Civil Rights Movement had reached an impasse. As...
Epps edited a book, The Speeches of Malcolm X at Harvard, which was published in 1967 and reissued in 1991.
In the early 1990s, Epps was named Harvard’s race coordinator after racial tensions mounted when the Black Student Association invited controversial City University of New York professor Leonard Jeffries to hear his allegations that Jews were complicit in the African slave trade.
The board of the Black Students Association (BSA) honored Epps after his death in a message to the organization’s e-mail list, calling him “a great man” and noted that he was going to be honored in October at the Black Alumni...