| Notes |
In 1968, Evans joined the Carnegie Corporation of New York as a Senior Program Officer. One of the country’s premier education foundations, Carnegie took a vested interest in the inequitable circumstances that existed at the time for black law students in the south. When Foundation president John W. Gardner asked Evans to travel to the region and investigate, Evans had his first opportunity to put the approach of “taking it big” into action by ultimately developing what remains one of his most treasured professional achievements: the Earl Warren Legal Training Program, an unprecedented collaboration among foundations and law schools aimed at expanding the pool of black southern lawyers. |