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Bell became Harvard Law School's first black tenured professor in 1971. This theory holds that people's perspectives on events are overwhelmingly determined by their racial background, and legal policies and precedents also bear the influences of racism and sexism. Assigned to Mississippi during the turbulent years of the civil rights movement, Bell represented blacks in hundreds of suits which led to the dismantlement of legal segregation in schools and public facilities. In 1980, Bell left Harvard to become dean of the University of Oregon Law School. Five years later he resigned his position in protest when the law faculty there refused to offer a faculty position to an Asian-American candidate, ranked third on the list, when the first two candidates, both white males, declined the appointment.