People In Motion| Derek Bell Interview| Produced by Mimi Rosenberg for WBAI| Recorded on November 21, 1985. - CONTENT: Mimi Rosenberg interviews Derek Bell, upon the publication of his book, Race, Racism and American Law. Bell is an attorney, author and historian specializing in the history of law and American racism. Bell indicates how he was helped by affirmative action and rejected by law schools until Martin Luther King, Jr. was assasinated and then the doors opened to him and other minorities including women. The discussion includes the ongoing struggle of racism, and the challenge to connect racism to economic inequeality. He trys to put to them that there are students at Harvard who got in based on their families rather than qualifications. Discussion about where to go with affirmative action and how white males have always benefitted from civil rights policy. Discussion of the Reagan and Koch era. - Broadcast on November 11, 1985.
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