Front row: K. Carroll, H. Gates, J. Byrd, A. Bennett, S. Gissler
Middle row: T. Friedman, N. Lemann, A. Lipinski, J. Harris, L. Bollinger, R. Oppel, M. Pride
Back row: A. Gyllenhaal, G. Moore, D. Graham, P. Steiger, P. Tash, D. Kennedy, J. Amoss --(photo credit: Eileen Barroso)
Pulitzer Prizes recognize previously anonymous photo winner
When the photograph was first published in August of 1979 in an Iranian newspaper, the editor withheld Razmi's identity because he was concerned for the photographer's safety, The Wall Street Journal story reported.
Henry Louis Gates Jr., is the W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities, chair of the Afro-American Studies Department and director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard University.
With 40 honorary degrees, Gates is a world-renowned scholar and teacher of African and African-American history and culture. He has authored seven books and written numerous essays and reviews on a broad range of African and African-American issues, including slavery, race, feminism, dialect and identity.
