The Fletcher Foundation was created with a $50 million endowment in 2004 by New York financier and philanthropist Alphonse Fletcher, Jr.[1] A 1987 graduate of Harvard University, Fletcher worked in investment banking and in 1993 founded Fletcher Asset Management. A Harvard Class Marshal, Fletcher endowed a University Professorshp at his alma mater, first held by philosopher Cornel West and now held by literary critic Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The Fletcher Foundation supports civil rights and environmental education. In 2004, in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision, Brown v. Board of Education, the Fletcher Foundation announced the creation of the Alphonse Fletcher, Sr. Fellowship program, described by foundation chair Henry Louis Gates, Jr. as "Guggenheims for race issues."[2] The inaugural class of Fletcher Fellows, each awarded $50,000, was selected in 2005. Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) , is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... Cornel Ronald West (born June 2, 1953 in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is a prominent African-American scholar and public intellectual. ... Henry Louis Skip Gates, Jr. ... Holding Segregation of students in public schools violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, because separate facilities are inherently unequal. ...

2005 Inaugural Fletcher Fellows

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• Elizabeth Alexander, poet and African American studies professor, Yale University
• Devon Carbado, law professor at University of California, Los Angeles
• Kathleen Cleaver, author and former Black Panther Party activist
• Stanley Crouch, cultural critic and author
• Roland Fryer, economist and member of Harvard Society of Fellows
• Anita Hill, civil rights attorney and law professor Brandeis University
• Nina Jablonsky, biological anthropologist and author of Skin
• Glenn Ligon, artist, New York
• Arthur Mitchell, founder of the Dance Theatre of Harlem
• Robert Parris Moses, educator and civil rights leader
• Thomas Sugrue, civil rights historian and professor at University of Pennsylvania
• Deborah Willis, photographer and documentarian and professor at New York University

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2006 Fletcher Fellows

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• Lawrence Bobo, race relations scholar and professor at Stanford University
• Fatimah L.C. Jackson, professor of anthropology, University of Maryland
• Randall Kennedy, professor of law, Harvard University
• Miranda Massie, civil rights attorney, Detroit, Michigan
• Lorna Simpson, artist, New York
• Anna Deveare Smith, performance artist, actress, and University Professor, New York University
• Valerie Smith, professor of English and director African American Studies Program, Princeton University
• Margaret Beale Spencer, professor of education, University of Pennsylvania
• Brent Staples, award-winning journalist, New York Times
• Patricia Sullivan, associate professor of history, University of South Carolina
• Loic Wacquant, professor of sociology and boxer, University of California, Berkeley

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Articles about Fletcher Fellowships

• Wall Street Journal, 15 April 2005
• Boston Globe, 20 May 2005

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