Word: apartheid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...destruction of shanties erected to protest apartheid with sledge hammers on the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday...
Editor's note: This statement was a collaborative effort of the executive committee of the Harvard and Radcliffe Alumni/ae Against Apartheid, a prodivestment group which describes itself as "a movement for diversity and social responsibility." Their statement is part of a continuing series in The Crimson on the challenges facing the next president of Harvard...
This forces us to question not only formal barriers such as apartheid, but the more subtle barriers of class, culture, gender, manners and privilege that serve as gatekeepers in societies like our own that have forsworn legal discrimination...
Harvard and Radcliffe Alumni/ae Against Apartheid urges the next president to make achieving the goals of diversity and social responsibility the highest priority of the new administration. Harvard's stature can only be enhanced by having these achievements come as the result of official University policy rather than as the bitter fruit of years of contention...
...following people make up the executive board of the Harvard and Radcliffe Alumni/ae Against Apartheid: Judith K. Baker '70; Eric B. Gumbi; Jan L. Handke; Chester Hartman '57; Joel Krieger; Irving P. McPhail; Donald M. Solomon; Jonathan Walters '71; Robert Paul Wolff '53; and Lena S. Zezulin...