Word: blacks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...About 40 black faculty members and administrators met last night to discuss ways of responding as a group to the continuing conflict between black students and the Harvard administration over the hiring of minority group construction workers...
...member of the Afro-American Studies Department who helped organize the meeting said that the primary purpose was to create "a wide-ranging organization of black faculty and administrators." Such an organization, he said, could then take effective stands on issues like the Organization for Black Unity (OBU)'s demand that Harvard hire 20 per cent black and "Third World" workers...
Derrick A. Bell. Jr., lecturer on Law and spokesman for a black faculty steering committee, said that those who organized last night's meeting wanted to discuss "how they can best show some support and be supportive" to the black students involved...
...available. A 1968 Boston census indicates that the city's population (apart from those living in group quarters: hospitals, dormitories, prisons, etc.. who amount to 35-40,000) is 535,000-a precipitous drop from the 1960 figure of 697,000. Combined with increases in the city's black population, the Research Division of United Community Services estimates that 17 per cent of Boston's population is now nonwhite. A 1969, Cambridge census shows a black population of at least 7 per cent, probably somewhat higher. Combined figures for the two cities show that as of the late...
Lots of thinking and work needs to be done by the University if it is to act responsibly. And it is the black students who are applying the pressure without which at best only token progress will occur. Rights and responsibilities are a two-way street and at present the University wants to take the easy way out of avoiding its own obligations while punishing those who are taking that militant action which apparently is the only thing the University really responds...