Word: abrams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...occupation of Ford Hall at Brandeis ended Saturday afternoon when 50 black students came out voluntarily under an amnesty granted by university president Morris B. Abram...
...Abram said he was glad the demonstration had ended without violence. "The fact that violence had been avoided and the students have vacated the premises makes possible a voluntary, generous and speedy response by the university to their legitimate and deeply felt needs as black men and women in a predominantly white society," Abram said...
...Waltham, Mass., black students at Brandeis University, who total 110 in a student body of 2,600, unexpectedly occupied the communications building. President Morris Abram deplored their action as one that came "without prior complaint" on a campus where lines of communication "have always been open." Still, he met black delegates and agreed to most of their demands for greater black representation in the student body and more courses on black history and culture...
They did, however, affirm that their demands were "not negotiable." In a letter to Abram, black spokesman Randall C. Bailey wrote that "These demands are non-negotiable because they are minimal, they have been negotiated since April 8, 1968, and were for the most part approved but have not been implemented...
...MORRIS ABRAM thinks are getting tough, he should talk to S. I. Hayakawa. For as Hayakawa enters his second embattled month as president of San Francisco State College, he is beginning to look back nostalgically to the days when the college could solve its problems by merely acceding to black student demands...