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Henry Louis Gates Jr., a Harvard scholar, accused Cambridge police of racism upon being arrested after trying to get into his own locked home near the university
Monday, Jul. 20, 2009

Open quoteWhy, because I'm a black man in America? Close quote

  • HENRY LOUIS GATES JR.,
  • according to a police report; the African-American scholar was arrested outside his home near Harvard University after a woman reported seeing a man try to pry open his front door
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