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Leonard, who came to Harvard from Howard University last year and is one of two black members of the 67-man Law School faculty, single-handedly organized the symposium over the summer and only recently secured funds from foundations for the conference...
Leonard said in a prepared statement released last night that some have suggested that the symposium is planned as a "black only" affair...
...This is an erroneous assumption," he said. "While it is a fact that most of the participants will be black, it is also a fact that the subject matter of the symposium- which concerns everyone in the legal profession- deals with problems peculiarly requiring those with particular knowledge to deal with them...
...said yesterday that he had worked on a conference at Howard University in 1966 which had focused on the black lawyer but that symposium, he said, had discussed the shortage of black lawyers and the need to increase their numbers...
...explaining the background behind the Law School's symposium, Leonard sketched the brief history of black students at predominantly white law schools...