{"product_id":"the-last-negroes-at-harvard-the-class-of-1963-and-the-18-young-men-who-changed-harvard-forever-hardcover","title":"The Last Negroes at Harvard: The Class of 1963 and the 18 Young Men Who Changed Harvard Forever - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKent Garrett\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJeanne Ellsworth\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe untold story of the Harvard class of '63, whose Black students fought to create their own identities on the cusp between integration and affirmative action.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the fall of 1959, Harvard recruited an unprecedented eighteen \"Negro\" boys as an early form of affirmative action. Four years later they would graduate as African Americans. Some fifty years later, one of these trailblazing Harvard grads, Kent Garrett, would begin to reconnect with his classmates and explore their vastly different backgrounds, lives, and what their time at Harvard meant. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Garrett and his partner Jeanne Ellsworth recount how these eighteen youths broke new ground, with ramifications that extended far past the iconic Yard. By the time they were seniors, they would have demonstrated against national injustice and grappled with the racism of academia, had dinner with Malcolm X and fought alongside their African national classmates for the right to form a Black students' organization. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Part memoir, part group portrait, and part narrative history of the intersection between the civil rights movement and higher education, this is the remarkable story of brilliant, singular boys whose identities were changed at and by Harvard, and who, in turn, changed Harvard.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKENT GARRETT\u003c\/b\u003e graduated from Harvard in 1963. He has had a thirty-year Emmy and Peabody award-winning career in television news and documentaries. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJEANNE ELLSWORTH\u003c\/b\u003e has a PhD in social foundations of education from the University of Buffalo, and has devoted her life to teaching, from elementary school to prisons to university. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Garrett and Ellsworth live in Roxbury, New York.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 9.1 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 11, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51772394766624,"sku":"9781328879974","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/172f35dbcf59eae1c39c20c87fecd2dd.webp?v=1780404695","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-last-negroes-at-harvard-the-class-of-1963-and-the-18-young-men-who-changed-harvard-forever-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}