Kent Garrett

Kent Garrett entered Harvard in 1959 as one of the eighteen African-American members of the Class of 1963. He tells the stories of different members of this group, describing how they navigated Harvard and interfaced with the broader world as the Civil Rights Movement came into their and Americans' consciousness. I found it a really interesting look at Garrett, the men in his class, and the depiction of Harvard as an institution in the 60s.

This book may well have appealed to me more than it might generally appear to everyone. The portions of the book mainly focusing on Harvard history were really personally interesting to me--it was really interesting to me to hear about things like the history and legacy of different Harvard administrators, as well as what Harvard culture was like in the 50s/60s. I expect that most people reading this wouldn't be as personally invested in this as I am, but I really enjoyed it.… (more)