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...Since the departure of Cornel West [to the African-American Studies Department] and Evelyn Higginbotham [to the History Department], the faculty is less diverse, especially among senior faculty," Ulman says...
Raised in Trenton, N.J., then a segregated town, Higginbotham pursued a career in law because of his first-hand experience with injustice. The son of a cleaning woman and a laborer, he often told personal stories of his rise through racial injustice in his lectures as lessons of how "voiceless and forgotten people" could overcome obstacles...
...Higginbotham became a noted legal scholar, author and historian, serving as a Federal judge before coming to Harvard...
...reception at Pound Hall immediately followed the memorial service. There a somber crowd recalled Higginbotham's legend...
Along with Gates, Guinier and Nye, Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine, Climenko Professor of Law Charles J. Ogletree and Higginbotham's daughter, Karen Higginbotham, spoke at the memorial service. Lawrence Watson, Ruth Hamilton and the Kummba Singers, a campus choir that sings spiritual music, performed at the service...