Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This year's returnees attended speeches and panels on subjects like "The Resurgence of Racism on College Campuses," "Teaching our History," and "The Declining Presence of Black Males on Campus," all topics that have recently come into the news. But the issues the panels discussed were not new, graduates said...
Some things have also changed for the worse. Several alumni expressed concern about the shrinking number of Harvard students from who come from lower-income Black families and attributed alterations in the Harvard Black community to this shift...
Kevin Henderson '83 talked about examples of overt racism. In 1980, the year he moved into Winthrop House, the Black population in the house doubled, he said. "They knew we were coming," he said, and in response some people put racist posters up in his room...
...Harvard campus, threats were made against the then-president of the BSA, Henderson said. And Bailey, who came to Harvard in 1982, says that by that time, most Black students had friends at other schools where there were also threats of violence...
Threats of violence were only the tip of the iceberg. The Crimson caused controversy in 1981 when it published an editorial about a prison riot in Arizona. Although none of the rioters were Black, a picture of two Black Harvard students with bars superimposed over their faces appeared next to the editorial, said Clark. When the students threatened to sue, The Crimson settled the matter by printing a retraction and agreeing to capitalize the word "Black...