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...decision to use a sliding admission scale for James Baldwin's speech was not made by the Executive Committee of the Association of African and Afro-American Students. Most of the arrangements for Mr. Baldwin's visit were made during the Christmas vacation by me, as the President of the Association. The sliding admission scale was my idea and all the people to whom I mentioned it, including some white students, some members of our Association, and a member of the Harvard faculty, approved it as a very good idea. Some members of our Executive Committee who had just returned...
...conviction that the spokesmen for the so-called Negro Revolution must take their ideas to the masses of the people whom they are supposed to be speaking for. These are the people who can make a revolution possible. Our aim in inviting Baldwin is not just to smoothe the cars of the big-handed intellectual hypocrites in universities, but rather to enable all the people in the Boston area who are committed to the struggle to hear whatever suggestions Mr. Baldwin might have. By specifying a refused rate for civil rights workers we simply wanted to express our with...
...Administration has rightly disallowed the AAAAS's proposed sliding admission scale for James Baldwin's speech on the grounds that the plan was discriminatory. As recent campaigns against de facto segregation have maintained, the areas that would have received preferential treatment are predominately Negro. The motivation of O. Martin Anochie, president of the AAAAS, can hardly have been to help "persons who can't afford high admission prices" as he claims, since other sections of Boston qualify with Dorchester and Roxbury as depressed areas. What Anochie should have said, but did not, was that he wished to help Negroes...
...seeking to help poorer Negroes hear Baldwin, the AAAAS could have chosen a plan that would not have embroiled the Administration in a misleading dispute over discrimination. To oppose the sliding a admission scale is not to oppose the general idea of aiding people from Roxbury, Dorchester, or any other depressed area to attend the Jan. 18 speech. A flat fifty-cent rate or differently priced seats would have served that purpose just as well...
...Association of African and Afro-American Students will not be allowed to use Sanders Theatre for James Baldwin's scheduled Jan. 18 speech unless they drop plans for an allegedly discriminatory sliding admission scale, Dean Watson said yesterday. O. Martin Anochie, president of the AAAAS indicated last night that his group would comply with the University's desires, but labeled Harvard's action as "ridiculous...