Word: america
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...freshman Blake established himself as a national force, achieving All-America honors...
Although the College first opened its doors to African-American, Jewish and other minority students long before other Ivy League colleges, the embarrassment of race-based prejudices, both explicit and latent, forced the Office of Admissions to play catch-up in the 1970s along with the rest of America's predominantly white institutions...
...assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. awakened white America as a whole--and Harvard in particular--to racial inequality. While Harvard President Nathan M. Pusey '28 led a service honoring King inside Memorial Church, about 80 black students stood outside in protest, one reportedly saying, "We don't want their tears--we want black people to have a place at Harvard...
...November 1998 and January 1999 editorialcolumns, Republican presidential candidate PatrickJ. Buchanan asserted that Harvard and the rest ofthe Ivy League need to "look more like America,"specifically critiquing the "overrepresentation"of Jewish and Asian-American students at Harvard...
Dole also spoke about the need to remove barriers in trading with Latin America...