A credentialed insider witnessed the conference snub of Lanier

Evidence

I am a historian who retired from the faculty at Northeastern University effective December 31, 2016. I am also a Harvard alumnus (Class of 1969) and was both a member of the Ad Hoc Committee of Black Students (which negotiated with the Rosovsky Committee for the creation of the Department of Afro-American Studies) and a member of the editorial board of the student-run Harvard Journal of Negro Affairs. — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 649