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20 U.S.F. L. Rev. 503 (1985-1986)
Commentary: The Implications of Being a Society of One

handle is hein.journals/usflr20 and id is 517 raw text is: Commentary: The Implications of Being a Society of One By RACHEL F. MORAN Professor of Law, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley; A.B., Stanford University (1978); J.D., Yale Law School (1981). --America's first democratically distributed privilege was the right to dream ....I -What happens to a dream deferred?'2 Introduction TODAY'S TALKS POIGNANTLY capture the strain induced by a dream long-envisioned but only partially realized, a vision of equal participation for minorities and women in the American legal educational system. Professor Wright's reference to W.E.B. DuBois illustrates the persistent difficulties generated by deferring the hopes and aspirations of an entire people.' The stress created for minorities attempting to attain prominence in the legal academy is by no means a novel phenomenon. For example, Charles H. Hous- ton, the grandson of slaves, entered Amherst College at age sixteen and graduated in 1915 as class valedictorian and a member of Phi Beta Kappa.' In 1922, he graduated from Harvard Law School in the top five percent of his class and was the first black elected to the editorial board of the Harvard Law Review. Subsequently, Houston became the first black to earn a doctor of judicial science degree from Harvard. He also received a doctor of civil law from the University of Madrid. Houston later became dean of Howard Law School and in two years converted it from an undistinguished 1. R. WIEBE, THE SEGMENTED SOCIETY 3 (1975). 2. L. HUGHES, SELECTED POEMS OP LANGSTON HUGHES 268 (paperback ed. 1974). 3. Wright, The Color Line Still Exists, 20 U.S.F. L. REV. infra. 4. G. SEGAL, BLACKS IN THE LAW 210 (1983).

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