Kent Garrett graduated from Harvard in 1963, one of 18 black students in a class of over 1,000. He details his time on campus in a new book — including how efforts to establish a black student association were thwarted by the administration.
The whole family came along to drop Kent Garrett off at college in fall 1959. He's pictured above in Harvard Yard with his sister, aunt and mother.The whole family came along to drop Kent Garrett off at college in fall 1959. He's pictured above in Harvard Yard with his sister, aunt and mother.Kent Garrett Sr., 97, still remembers how proud and happy he was when his son was admitted to Harvard in 1959."I invited everybody over for dinner," he recalls with a laugh.
When the time came for Garrett to pack his bags and head to Cambridge in the fall of 1959, he didn't go alone. His parents, his kid sister, a couple of aunts and an uncle filled two cars and went with him."It was a little bit embarrassing in a way, everybody wanting to come up there," Garrett recalls.
"I'd been with my dad, floor waxing in rich white people's houses all those years growing up, and here I was again at Harvard, you know, doing 'Negro' sort of work," he says.
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