The Last Negroes at Harvard: The Class of 1963 and the 18 Young Men Who Changed Harvard Forever

Garrett, Kent and Jeanne Ellsworth

ISBN 10: 1328879976 / ISBN 13: 9781328879974

Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020

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THERE IS A BLACK "CLOSEOUT/REMAINDER" MARK ON THE BOTTOM PAGE EDGES. In 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. Garrett and his partner, Jeanne Ellsworth recount how these youths brok new ground, with ramifications that extended far beyond the iconic Yard. By the time they were seniors, they had demonstrated against national injustice, 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. 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 young men whose identities were changed at and by Harvard, and who, in turn, changed Harvard. THERE IS A BLACK "CLOSEOUT/REMAINDER" MARK ON THE BOTTOM PAGE EDGES. HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT, HARDCOVER, 1ST EDITION, 1ST PRINTING, 2020 THIS IS A BRAND NEW BOOK.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Last Negroes at Harvard: The Class of 1963 and the 18 Young Men Who Changed Harvard Forever
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1328879976
• ISBN 13: 9781328879974
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

The 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.

About the Authors

KENT GARRETT was born in the Fort Greene Projects in Brooklyn, New York. He excelled in the New York City Public Schools and went on to Harvard College in 1959. He was one of the producers of the ground-breaking public TV program Black Journal and went on to a long career with CBS and NBC News. In 1997, he left the rat race and became an organic dairy farmer in upstate New York.

JEANNE ELLSWORTH grew up in northwest New Jersey and taught elementary school there for ten years. After returning to school to get a doctorate, she was a teacher educator in the State University of New York system for over twenty years. Since 2007, she has lived in the Catskill Mountains with her partner, Kent Garrett.