Leading Black-studies authorities and Harvard presidents repeatedly rebuffed Lanier’s claim.

Evidence

I’d been looking for someone at Harvard to align with for almost a decade by then and kept hitting brick walls, beginning with the staff at the Peabody in 2010, then the long list of professors whom I was sure would take an interest in my story. I was still bewildered by Professor Gates’s nonresponsiveness. He was viewed by many as a leading authority on African American history, yet he remained silent when it came to my connection to Renty. … But Meredith understood the power of the student body and she firmly believed that once they knew what was going on, they would condemn Harvard’s actions. And she was right. — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 966

Categorization

• XREF: Contrasts with how student movements shifted institutional accountability elsewhere — connects to the reader’s interest in how institutions hold stolen things.