The Leon Litwack Endowment was endowed by one of Leon Litwack's 30,000 students to support the African American History program and related activities in the Department of History. One of the ways the department will use this fund will be to honor Leon Litwack's memory by awarding one undergraduate and one graduate student with a financial award for their research in African American History. Additional resources from the Litwack endowment will be used to strengthen the field of African American history for students and faculty at Berkeley through a speaker series or workshop series.

In order to preserve the spirit of the purpose of the fund, and the intent of the original donors who established it, new donors who make gifts to this endowment understand that changes may be made to the fund in the future if it ever becomes difficult to spend. Any future changes will be consistent with the original purpose as written here. As such, new donors agree upon making their gifts that any future potential change to the endowment purpose may be made without their consultation.