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Henry Louis Gates arrest controversy. On July 16, 2009, Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. was arrested at his Cambridge, Massachusetts, home by local police officer Sgt. James Crowley, who was responding to a 911 caller's report of men breaking and entering the residence.
Mar 11, 2024 · ‘We are all mixed’: Henry Louis Gates Jr on race, being arrested and working towards America’s redemption. Afua Hirsch. The US academic and TV historian’s rejection of racial categories...
Jul 26, 2010 · The largest single event explicitly tied to race in the way it was covered during the year was the arrest on July 16, 2009 of Gates, who was mistakenly suspected of trying to break in to his own home. Gates accused the arresting officer, who is white, of racism – and this sparked a sometimes heated national conversation about race.
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Jul 20, 2009 · By ABC News. July 20, 2009, 6:22 PM. July 20, 2009 -- Prominent Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct after an incident with police responding to a call about someone apparently trying to break into his Cambridge, Mass., home.
By Joan Vennochi. July 24, 2009. BOSTON — The arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr. by a Cambridge, Massachusetts, police officer is playing out along racial lines. But it’s also about power...
Henry Louis Gates Jr. on Why Fear Is Driving the Current Era of Racial Backlash April 4, 2024 Henry Louis Gates Jr. is one of the most influential scholars of Black history and literature in the United States.
But the day he delivered that convention speech, Harvard professor and noted African American scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. was arrested at his home in Cambridge, Mass., spawning an...
