Derrick Bell is a rare combination of activist, scholar, and creative thinker. In 1990, Derrick Bell, then a professor at Harvard University, was dismissed while protesting the absence of women of color at Harvard's Law School. Bell discusses his decision to protest in  Confronting Authority: Reflections of an Ardent Protestor. Bell's other books include: And We Are Not Saved: The Elusive Quest for Racial Justice; Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism, Gospel Choirs: Psalms of Survival in an Alien Land Called Home, Silent Covenants: Brown v. Board of Education and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform, and Race, Racism and American Law.