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8 de jan. de 2022 · 2 of 2 | . FILE - Lani Guinier speaks at the annual meeting of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 13, 1994, in Washington. Guinier, a pioneering civil rights lawyer and scholar whose nomination by President Bill Clinton to head the Justice Department’s civil rights division was pulled after conservatives labeled her “quota queen,” has died at 71.
2 de dez. de 2004 · Lani Guinier was born on April 19, 1950, in New York City. Her father, Ewart, was a lawyer, union organizer, and real estate agent, and her mother, Eugenia, was a public school teacher. In the late 1960s, Guinier attended Harvard University and was one of the students who petitioned for the establishment of an African American studies program there, which was later headed by her father.
Lani Guinier set a standard that I tried to emulate and pass on to the thousands of students I had the privilege of teaching, and that I reinforced during my decade of leadership at LDF. Civil rights lawyer, advocate, scholar, teacher, mentor, leader. Lani Guinier’s influence and
7 de jan. de 2022 · Lani Guinier was born in New York City on April 19, 1950, to Eugenia Paprin and Ewart Guinier — parents who were civil rights activists in their own right. Ewart, Lani’s father, was himself a lawyer and trailblazer who was one of only two Black students admitted to Harvard University in 1929, but was subsequently forced to leave the school prematurely due to the discriminatory environment.
8 de jan. de 2022 · Carol Lani Guinier was born April 19, 1950, in New York City. Her father, Ewart Guinier, became the first chairman of Harvard University’s Department of Afro-American Studies.
7 de abr. de 1998 · Lani Guinier is best known for her ill-fated candidacy to become the first African American and female Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. She provides a spell-binding blow by blow account of what it was like to be nominated, then cast aside in the political jockeying that followed the 1992 election of Bill Clinton to the presidency.
At an event at Harvard Law School in February honoring Lani Guinier, Susan Sturm invoked a phrase that was familiar to most of the attendees, a mix of Guinier’s family, colleagues, collaborators, friends and students. It was a line that Guinier often used when prodding her students into pushing harder and thinking deeper: “My problem is, if ...
