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Derek Reginald Bell (Pinner, Inglaterra, Reino Unido, 31 de octubre de 1941) más conocido como Derek Bell, es un piloto británico de automovilismo, destacado principalmente en carreras de resistencia durante la década de 1980. Tras competir en Fórmula 3 y Fórmula 2, Bell debutó en la Fórmula 1 en 1968.
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Derek Reginald Bell MBE (born 31 October 1941 in Pinner, Middlesex, England) is a British racing driver. In sportscar racing, he won the Le Mans 24 hours five times, the Daytona 24 three times and the World Sportscar Championship twice. He also raced in Formula One for the Ferrari, Wheatcroft, McLaren, Surtees and Tecno teams.
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Bell was born on November 6, 1930, to Derrick Albert and Ada Elizabeth Childress Bell. He was raised in a working-class family in the Hill District of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was raised a Presbyterian. Bell's maternal grandfather, John Childress, was a blind cook on the Pennsylvania Railroad. His paternal grandfather was a minister in Dothan, ...
After graduation and a recommendation from then United States associate attorney general William P. Rogers, Bell took a position with the newly formed Department of Justice in the Honor Graduate Recruitment Program. Due to his interests in racial issues, he transferred to the Civil Rights Division. He was one of the few Black lawyers working for th...
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Bell spent the second half of his career working in academia until his death in 2011. During this time, he worked at a number of prestigious law schools while at the authoring books which now considered the foundation of critical race theory. Bell worked towards the creation of what he considered a more inclusive faculty within institutions such as USC, Harvard, and NYU.Bell was known to be respectful of all beliefs and his class was described by his students to be the "least indoctrinated cl...
USC Law School
Bell's first law faculty position began in 1967 at the USC Gould School of Law of the University of Southern California. There, he succeeded Martin Levine as executive director of the new Western Center on Law and Poverty. Among his notable cases was a class action suit against the Los Angeles Police Departmenton behalf of the city's Black residents. During Bell's directorship, the Western Center's work was recognized in 1971 with a trophy bestowed by the Community Relations Conference of Sou...
Harvard Law School
In 1969, Black Harvard Law School students helped to get Bell hired. They had protested for a minority faculty member and Derek Bok hired Bell to teach as a lecturer. Bok promised that Bell would be "the first but not the last" of his Black hires. In 1971, Bell became Harvard Law's first Black tenured professor. During his time at Harvard, Bell established a new course in civil rights law, published a celebrated case book, Race, Racism and American Law, and produced a steady stream of law rev...
On October 5, 2011, Bell died at the age of 80 from carcinoid cancer at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital in New York City. At the time, the Associated Press reported: "The dean at NYU, Richard Revesz, said, 'For more than 20 years, the law school community has been profoundly shaped by Derrick's unwavering passion for civil rights and community justic...
Race, Racism and American Law(1973, Little Brown & Co.; 6th ed., 2008)And We Are Not Saved: The Elusive Quest for Racial Justice(1987)Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism(1992)Confronting Authority: Reflections of an Ardent Protestor(Beacon Press, 1994)Additional sources
1. Bell, Janet Dewart (2013). "In Memory of Professor Derrick Bell". Seattle University Law Review. 36(1): 1–4. 2. McGee, Henry (2013). "A Tribute to Derrick Bell". Seattle University Law Review. 36(1): 5–6. 3. Nagae, Peggy A. (2013). "Tribute to Derrick Bell". Seattle University Law Review. 36(1): 7–9. 4. Onwuachi-Willig, Angela (2013). "On Derrick Bell as Pioneer and Teacher: Teaching Us How to Have the Nerve". Seattle University Law Review. 36(1): 10–15. 5. Armstrong, Margalynne J.; Wildma...
Delgado, Richard; Stefancic, Jean, eds. (2005). The Derrick Bell Reader. NYU Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-1969-5. JSTOR j.ctt9qg47z.Fair, Bryan (1988). "HOW FAR WE HAVE TO GO: And We Are Not Saved: The Elusive Quest for Racial Justice by Derrick Bell". National Black Law Journal. 10(3).Derek Bell MBE has enjoyed one of the most successful, diverse and wide-ranging racing careers of any British racing drivers which spans over 40 years.
31 de oct. de 2021 · Porsche Newsroom. 2021. Historia. Porsche felicita a Derek Bell al cumplir 80 años. 31.10.2021. Derek Bell conserva esa sonrisa especial que inquietaba a muchos de sus competidores en la pista: cálida, pero que hacía ver que estaba seguro de la victoria. Hoy, el inglés celebra su cumpleaños número 80.
Bell is best-known as the consummate endurance sports car driver who won the Le Mans 24 Hours five times, the Daytona 24 Hours three times and the World Sports Car Champion twice! He is considered to be the greatest British racing driver ever to compete in endurance racing.
Derek Nathaniel Bell (born December 11, 1968) is an American former professional baseball outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball for the Toronto Blue Jays , San Diego Padres , Houston Astros , New York Mets , and Pittsburgh Pirates from 1991 to 2001.
