Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have to accept it, though, to dispute those who view "sterile academicism" with excessive alarm...
...nationalism popular at Harvard has its most significant roots in emotional needs--and often these are needs produced by the Harvard environment itself. "Many students who accept black nationalism," said Archie C. Epps, teaching fellow in Middle Eastern Studies, "do so because of their experience at Ivy League schools. They go to the same classes with you, they dress the same. But Negroes feel they cannot become part of the life at Harvard on the weekends or even at night. Some of them don't think they can have friends here. Maybe they go down to Elsie...
None of these actions is specifically nationalistic, and most Harvard Negroes find it hard to follow through completely, to reject acceptance by whites. As one student observed "to go along with Malcolm is to give up your dreams of getting into the mainstream of American life." But though few embrace black nationalism as a doctrine, many accept it as a useful concept, an intellectual focus for their feelings...
...power--though they are learning to. And they are not so independent as they would have whites believe, though they are becoming more so. One student explained that he had spent the first 18 years of his life trying to be such a "good Negro" that whites would accept him. This pattern is hard to break, and the dream of entering the "mainstream" is hard to give up--particularly when one is at Harvard and the dream seems at times attainable...
Moses finishes by asking the delegation to accept the Green proposal as their minimal demand. The delegates respond with a unanimous...