Word: afros
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Indeed I thought the Afro service was appropriate. The black students sought an integrity and privacy which I too sought. The service was a simple, beautiful and profoundly sincere tribute to the kind of man "who will not soon pass this way again." Archie Epps Assistant Dean of Harvard College
James K. Glassman's report (Blacks Hold Own Service For King) of the meeting Dean Glimp and I had with Jeffrey P. Howard about the Afro memorial service for Dr. King attributes to Dean Glimp and me a purpose we did not have. We in no way wished to discourage the Afro service. Our concern was with the problems of holding the service in an area where the privacy of the service might be difficult to insure. We did urge that the Afro service not be disruptive. We did not think it was imperative that the Afro services be held...
...object to the Afro statement, "We detest the use of King's philosophy of non-violence to suppress the legitimate and totally justified rebellion of our black brothers and sisters now occurring across the country." Riots are rarely justified and even more rarely of great benefit to furthering the Negro cause. It is not law and order that oppresses black Americans, it is the other people who live in this country. The laws and principles of the nation far outdistance the population's desire to observe them. The effect that the looting of stores and the destruction of homes...
University officials are not going to act now on any of the four requests Afro put forward Tuesday...
Trowbridge, 33, a private-school product of Philadelphia's Chestnut Hill Academy and Vermont's Putney School, shuns the liberal notion that racial differences should be ignored. Manhattan Country's Negro pupils, most of whom are from poverty areas in East Harlem, may wear "Afro" haircuts with pride, knowing that their white classmates from high-rise apartment buildings cannot match them. No one pretends that there are no racial tensions at the school-but whenever a child tosses a racial slur, it becomes a topic of freewheeling discussion in which teachers lead the students in discovering...