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When a chair was finally appointed, the choice resulted in yet another controversy. The eventual selection of Ewart Guinier, whom Hall believes was selected for his ties to the University rather than his ability to lead the department, led to a crisis of leadership, according to his colleagues...
Department members--many of whom claimed it was being woefully mismanaged by Guinier--were unable to agree on hiring and curriculum strategies...
...Guinier was awarded an honorary master's from Harvard and appointed as chair of the fledgling Afro-Am Department. He stepped down as chair in 1976, and left Harvard...
...Guinier was born in Panama, raised in Jamaica and educated in the Boston public school system. He attended Harvard from 1929-31, but left the University for financial reasons and completed his education at New York City College. He received his master's from Columbia University...
From 1948-53 Guinier was the Secretary-Treasurer of the United Public Workers (UPW), the forerunner of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Workers. The UPW was purged from the AFL-CIO during the communist scare of the 1950s...