“Dr. Hare was part of the documentation of the vicious onslaught against a vulnerable but viable Black ego, Black mindset, and Black intellectual formation,” Dyson said. “He was serious about using words to defend vulnerable Black people.” After leaving Howard University in 1967, Hare became the Black Studies program coordinator at San Francisco State College (now San Francisco State University).

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