Little girl. no one betting on people would have bet that she would become the first woman president of harvard university or even that harvard would ever have a woman president. harvard is now a month away from inaugurating its second woman president, professor claudine gay, the daughter of haitian immigrants. in her new book, now professor drew gilpin faust writes, for many white southerners of my generation, a life defining question has been how long it took us to notice the contradictions between the democratic and christian ideals intoned in church and school and the patterns of injustice in which our lives were invaded. when did the contradictions become troubling? when did they become unbearable? what was the moment of epiphany? for drew, the epiphany came when she was nine years old, on february 12th, 1957, she wrote a letter, there mr. eisenhower,
Generation, a life defining question has been how long it took us to notice the contradictions between the democratic and christian ideals intoned in church and school and the patterns of injustice in which our lives were invaded. when did the contradictions become troubling? when did they become unbearable? what was the moment of epiphany? for drew, the epiphany came when she was nine years old, on february 12th, 1957, she wrote a letter, there mr. eisenhower, i am nine years old, and i am white. but i have many feelings about segregation. she asked the president of the united states to and segregation. our games in the woods and fields around our house most often involved the refining of civil war battles, when my