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...Lani Guinier '71 accepts an offer of tenure at Harvard Law School, becoming the first black woman to hold tenure in the Law School's 181-year history...
...father was a victim of quotas, a quota ofone," said Guinier, explaining that when herfather came to Harvard College in 1929 he was notprovided with financial aid because, she believes,money had only been allotted for one blackstudent...
After the speech, Guinier spent nearly an houranswering questions on a variety of subjectsranging from her failed bid for office totechnical questions about proportionalrepresentation to her feelings on returning toHarvard as the first tenured black woman at theLaw School...
...know I'm the first tenured black woman atthe Law School, but I hope not to be the last,"Guinier said...
Kennedy School Public Service Professor ofJurisprudence A. Leon Higginbotham, a long-timefriend of Guinier attended the speech, and saidGuinier was an invaluable addition to the HLSfaculty...