Prof. Edwin Driver was one of the first Black teachers hired at a flagship state university in the country when he joined the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1948. He suffered racial discrimination, but may one day receive reparations. (March 10)
A price tag on trauma? College town weighs Black reparations
Amherst, some 90 miles from Boston, is among hundreds of communities and organizations across the country seeking to provide reparations to Black people
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Edwin Driver arrived in Amherst in 1948 as one of the first Black teachers hired at a flagship state university in the country.
But the 23-year-old sociology instructor at what would become the University of Massachusetts Amherst says he was denied pay raises for decades, despite being one of its most published professors.
Driver and his wife, who was from India, also encountered roadblocks trying to buy a house in the mostly white college town. Their three children faced racism from neighbors and school officials alike.
The Western Massachusetts college town is among hundreds of communities and organizations across the country seeking to provide reparations to Black people.
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