ShortJohnSilver
22nd December 2014, 12:41 AM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lani_Guinier
(very biased Wiki article, BTW)
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Born in New York City, Guinier is the daughter of a white Jewish mother, Eugenia Paprin, and Ewart Guinier a black Panamanian-born and Jamaican-raised scholar who was one of two blacks admitted to Harvard College in 1929. Ewart Guinier was, however, not given financial aid nor was he allowed to live in the dormitories on the purported grounds that he had failed to submit a photograph with his application. See Lani Guinier, Lift Every Voice: Turning a Civil Rights Setback into a New Vision of Social Justice (Simon & Schuster 1998) at pages 58-59. After dropping out of Harvard College in 1931 because he could not afford it, he ultimately returned to Harvard as a professor and chair of the Afro-American Studies Department in 1969.
Guinier has said that she wanted to be a civil rights lawyer since she was twelve years old, after she watched on television as Constance Baker Motley helped escort the first black American, James Meredith, to enroll in the University of Mississippi.[2] After graduating third in her class from Andrew Jackson High School, Guinier graduated from Radcliffe College in 1971 and Yale Law School in 1974. She clerked for Judge Damon Keith, then served as special assistant to Assistant Attorney General Drew S. Days in the Civil Rights Division during the Carter Administration.[3] In 1981, after Ronald Reagan took office, she joined the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) as an assistant counsel, eventually becoming head of its Voting Rights project.
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Clinton nominated her, then had to withdraw the nomination after even Carol Moseley-Braun told Clinton that she would not make it to confirmation as Asst. Attorney General.
(very biased Wiki article, BTW)
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Born in New York City, Guinier is the daughter of a white Jewish mother, Eugenia Paprin, and Ewart Guinier a black Panamanian-born and Jamaican-raised scholar who was one of two blacks admitted to Harvard College in 1929. Ewart Guinier was, however, not given financial aid nor was he allowed to live in the dormitories on the purported grounds that he had failed to submit a photograph with his application. See Lani Guinier, Lift Every Voice: Turning a Civil Rights Setback into a New Vision of Social Justice (Simon & Schuster 1998) at pages 58-59. After dropping out of Harvard College in 1931 because he could not afford it, he ultimately returned to Harvard as a professor and chair of the Afro-American Studies Department in 1969.
Guinier has said that she wanted to be a civil rights lawyer since she was twelve years old, after she watched on television as Constance Baker Motley helped escort the first black American, James Meredith, to enroll in the University of Mississippi.[2] After graduating third in her class from Andrew Jackson High School, Guinier graduated from Radcliffe College in 1971 and Yale Law School in 1974. She clerked for Judge Damon Keith, then served as special assistant to Assistant Attorney General Drew S. Days in the Civil Rights Division during the Carter Administration.[3] In 1981, after Ronald Reagan took office, she joined the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) as an assistant counsel, eventually becoming head of its Voting Rights project.
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Clinton nominated her, then had to withdraw the nomination after even Carol Moseley-Braun told Clinton that she would not make it to confirmation as Asst. Attorney General.