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...African Americans, many of whom had joined in the search for the boys. "This whole incident with her labeling a black man as the criminal sends a message of the black male as savage and barbarian," said McElroy Hughes, a retired minister and local president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. But "you have to give Sheriff Wells credit for the discreet and appropriate way he handled this," said the Rev. A.L. Brackett, pastor of the all-black, 400-member St. Paul Baptist Church in downtown Union. "He didn't drag in all the black...
...issues of comfort. When the practice reaches levels like that Cornell, where whole, dorms are set aside for people of a certain color, it merits concern, and condemnation. At this level, self-segregation stops being about individual comfort and begins being about racism and division. The assumption behind an all-Black dorm is that there is some benefit in having people of a certain race, and only that race, living together...
From age 12 on, she took jobs to help her struggling family's finances. She graduated with honors from high school and went off to Howard University in Washington, at that time an all-black institution. Next came Cornell, where she did graduate studies in English and, after writing a thesis on the theme of suicide in the works of William Faulkner and Virginia Woolf, earned an M.A. degree in 1955. Her degree qualified her to teach English, which she did, first in Texas and then back at Howard; but her familiarity with Faulkner's work proved invaluable when...
People are "captivated" by it, he says, and he suggests that this was the largest demonstration in recent years. Recent agitation for an all-Black Africa House produced bluster among Brown's activists but only 12 volunteers to live in a 20-bed home. On the other hand, the could've-been-me-flavored financial aid debate actually brought the masses into the streets...
Contradictory as this may sound, many people actually hold both positions. For example, liberals often both advocate a demographically representative faculty and defend the worth and necessity of all-female and all-Black colleges. Despite their commitment to diversity, they recognize that a certain amount of homogeneity fosters solidarity. Such a strengthened identity, they feel, is necessary for a group that risks assimilation into the wider society...