Word: agreements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...members of the Organization for Black Unity left University Hall at 2:30 p.m. yesterday after occupying the building for six hours. The students-all black-left the building to the sound of beating war drums after OBU president Phillip Lee, a third-year Law student, signed an agreement with Archibald Cox, professor of Law and University spokesman...
Leslie P. Griffin 70, president of Afro, said that the agreement is not final. "We just felt it wouldn't be to our advantage to stay until they called in the cops." Griffin also said that the demonstrators did not discuss whether to demand amnesty for their action. "The consensus was that sometimes you have to take responsibility for what you do." he said...
Ewart Guinier, chairman of the Afro-American Studies Department who helped negotiate the Cox-Lee agreement, characterized it as a "statement of faith on the part of both sides." He said that Harvard's promise that there would be no contracts executed on Gutman Library was the key indication of the University's willingness to bargain in good faith. Previously Harvard had only promised to review the contract...
...agreement was a condensation of a letter Cox wrote Thursday night and had intended to send to OBU yesterday morning. By the time he was ready to send the letter. however, University Hall was occupied. The letter was finally delivered at about 10:30 a.m. yesterday to the demonstrators...